Hundreds of children in regional Australia will have the opportunity to learn from the Australian Ballet’s teachers and dancers.
House prices across regional NSW have recorded the strongest gains in a year,and several towns rose by double digits.
Cousins Luke Leys and James Alexandrou are the fourth generation in their family to work on the Sydney Royal Easter Show regional displays.
This weekend’s Wimmera Steampunk Festival is set to be the biggest yet,and that’s a big deal for host town Dimboola,which came close to being destroyed by a bushfire in January.
Bendigo’s Easter parade doubles as a reunion for the Lougoon family,who are descended from a 19th century Chinese immigrant.
It’s harvest time in Thorpdale,but the town chips in to celebrate the humble spud with custom-made clothes,a potato-picking race and a speed-eating mash competition.
After losing her mother to gastrointestinal cancer,Sarah Wheeler rode for nine months,talking to people she met along the way about grief.
The heart of the town of Guildford will beat again when the century-old store reopens this weekend.
“It was never going to fall down on my watch,” says Alison Wren of the picturesque 115-year-old church in Victoria’s north-east that she has restored.
Hailing from a tiny town in regional NSW,Peta Bradley is an unlikely ice swimming champion. She says the pain is what motivates her.