Remember working on their early website and socials - great show.
Heather Ewart reflects on the tough road to Back Roads success - ABC News
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Heather Ewart reflects on the tough road to Back Roads success
Heather Ewart was a powerhouse political reporter when she was asked to create a show about regional Australia. A decade later, and with her final season going to air, Ewart admits that getting the idea off the ground was no easy feat.
Federal Court rules Australian government doesn’t have a duty of care to protect Torres Strait Islanders from climate change
Two Traditional Owners from the Torres Strait Islands who took the Australian government to court over climate-related harms have lost their case.
Voted in the Hottest 100 of Australian songs. Suspect my finished list was totally different to my first ten selections.
#hottest100I grew up on a peanut farm near Tolga in FNQ. Sad to see the remnants of the industry declining. # peanuts
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/bega-to-close-peanut-processing-plants-kingaroy-tolga/105512476
150 jobs in doubt as Bega winds down peanut processing plants in Queensland
Bega Group says Australia's peanut industry faces increased competition from imports and declining production.
Reinventing himself?
"In one he represented one of the men found guilty of murder for beating Indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey to death with a pole as he walked home from school. In the other, he represented a man embroiled in a sophisticated money-laundering scheme"
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/how-christian-porter-reinvented-himself-as-a-7000-a-day-barrister-20250526-p5m28q
Christian Porter: from attorney-general to scandal to $7000-a-day barrister
Once touted as a potential prime minister, the former federal attorney-general has quietly built a new life.
Did our first longish trip in the EV over the weekend, Albury to Melbourne and back. Things we learnt:
1. I was worried about range since there was a lot of 110kph highway and a fair bit of stop start city driving. This proved unfounded as the range was pretty right.
2. There are chargers everywhere along the highway ranging from cheap 7kw AC chargers to expensive 200+kw DC chargers. You pay for the convenience of speed . Even using the most expensive chargers, costs were about a third of fuel costs in the Mazda the EV has replaced.
Food supply chain system costs farmers and regions millions of dollars
Most "fresh" food travels thousands of kilometres to be sorted, divvied up and, in some cases, sent back to the place it came from — at huge cost to farmers and shoppers. But some new options are starting to sprout.
During my research into my family's extended genealogy, I've come across some remarkable descriptions of people from old documents.
Celebrating the winter solstice at Darker Days, a beer and music festival in Bright, Victoria. -7C overnight so puffer jackets appear to be the unofficial uniform.
Mojo ♻️