Bill Ormonde

Women sort beans on Ausquest farm in Nairobi, Kenya. An Australian farmer is trying to shift perceptions of what's possible in Kenyan agriculture, by providing a commercial example to other farmers.

More than two years since a health hazard led to Broken Hill's Willyama High School being knocked down, work on the "world-class" facility planned to replace is expected to begin.

Thu 28 May 2026 at 8:45pm As the melody of the butcherbird swirls with the wind, a bus rumbles along a dirt track in outback Australia, leaving plumes of red dust in its wake.

Delays in maintenance repairs, including mould removal, are forcing families to sleep on mattresses in living rooms, adding to overcrowding pressures in remote homes.

Sat 13 Jun 2026 at 9:39pm Far from a river or water source a large blue truck rolls into Esonorua Primary and Junior School, hours south of Nairobi.

Sun 14 Jun 2026 at 7:50am An Australian charity is providing clean drinking water to children in Kenya.

Wiped off mainland Australia by the introduction of cats and foxes, burrowing bettongs are making a triumphant comeback in outback NSW.

Once thriving across Australia's arid interior, the Burrowing Bettong all but vanished across the mainland within a century of European settlement.

Mon 22 Jun 2026 at 11:34pm In short: Water releases from the Menindee Lakes have doubled at the request of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder.

Hundreds of millions of litres of additional water is being released from the Menindee Lakes system each day to help Murray Cod populations.