Shannon Schubert

Fed up with the threat of floods, Victorian resident Tuesday Browell is thought to be the first private Australian resident to import war-zone technology to protect her home.

Program: The World Today Presented by When a record flood threatened northern Victoria two years ago, residents in a small town on

Fed up with the threat of floods, Victorian resident Tuesday Browell is thought to be the first private Australian resident to import war-zone technology to protect her home.

Migrants changed Cooma forever when they arrived to work on the Snowy Hydro Project 70 years ago. Now Snowy 2.0 is attracting more families from different countries, and the women are thriving.

Bands like the Daylight Reggae are helping young people find their voice in some of Australia's most isolated communities.

It's one of Australia's worst infrastructure failures, a time bomb counting down to catastrophe for a city and farming community unaware of the threat until one man's alarming discovery.

Saibai Islanders say they have been left to "fend for themselves" as confrontations over illegal fishing expose flaws in border security, putting their livelihoods and safety at risk.

Last month the Australian Defence Force unveiled a suite of weapons at the land autonomous systems and teaming demonstrations at the Puckapunyal Army Base in northern Victoria.

Community events are a lifeline for rural and regional towns across Australia, but more organisers are making the "heartbreaking" decision to cancel them.

Builders in Ballarat say the lure of more work and money in Melbourne is taking away the vital workforce needed to meet the government's ambitious regional 2051 housing targets.