Art class uses creativity to paint different picture of mental health
In an art studio in Newcastle, New South Wales, Halo is hand-making beads out of clay. It might…
Art ‘like medicine’ for accountant turned painter after brain injury
In a backyard studio, surrounded by plants and birdsong, artist Cheryl Blacklock is bringing to life an abstract…
Family of litter pickers celebrate highway clean up with vanilla slice
Debra Docking and her two sisters, along with brother-in-law Len Wignall, have been picking up rubbish along a…
Riverina community steps up to feed baby rhino after mum abandons him at birth
CK the baby rhino loves nothing more than to splash in puddles, scratch up against his roller toy…
Critically endangered orchid thrives as NSW Mid North Coast cemetery provides habitat refuge
On the outskirts of a small town in northern New South Wales, life is blooming in a historical…
Tasmanian couple takes on new adventure as caretakers of the Low Isles
The Sun has gone down and the tourists are back at their resorts, leaving Lee and Don Cameron…
Surprise exhibition at Hamilton Art Gallery celebrates Hamish Elsmann
For most of Hamish Elsmann’s adult life, communication has felt an impossibly distant task. Then, one day, he…
Dolphin calf rescued after spending weeks tangled in fishing line
Marine rescue groups have urged fishers to properly dispose of their equipment after freeing a bottlenose dolphin calf…
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Stolen WWII ledger returned to St Luke’s church in Toowoomba
An irreplaceable memorial book from St Luke’s Anglican Church in Toowoomba has been found a month after it…
How Chevalier’s 1864 painting of Mt Abrupt is restoring Grampians’ glory
There’s an old proverb, its origins rooted in Greek and Indian history, that goes something like “blessed is…