This week on The Local Update we’re facing the realities of Corona virus and working on growing all our own food. Graham Farram shares with us some stories about what people were eating around this region when times were tough in the past. I’m also joined by Kathleen McCann, a permaculture gardener from Tanja to […]

In this weeks episode of The Local Update we’re tying up lose ends from last week. Graham Farram is back with one of his favourite books, a book of Henry Lawson poetry from early in the last century. In the second half of the episode we revisit Chris Allen and the koala population of the […]

This is a weekly podcast looking at local issues around the Bega Valley. Each week we’ll share some of the history of the region as well as current news, events and issues. in this weeks episode my regular guest, Graham Farram, From the Bega Pioneers Museum, looks at some Henry Lawson poetry. Later in the […]

On October 25 the signs at the foot of Uluru were changed. What has, for more than 30 years, indicated that the local Anangu don’t believe the rock should be climbed on but the decision is yours, now simply says ‘no climbing’. This change has been decades in the making and comes after many many […]

For many of us who grew up in regional Australia the attractions of country life might seem obvious. What is it though that draws someone who is city born and bred to pack up everything, move away from friends and family and start a new life in a small agricultural community like Wingham? At the […]

Five people have died on NSW Beaches since the start of the season, given that so many of us live on the coast, how do we get this so wrong?   Every year in Australia the beach patrol season runs from the start of October until the end of the Easter School holidays, the bit that […]

Small communities in regional Australia surprise us sometimes, the characters you meet and the things they achieve in life can seem amazing. Here in the Manning Valley one family is running programs in emergency medicine, sustainable food production and capacity building projects that assist community members in The Democratic Republic Of Congo to continue to […]