Australian Country

The undisputed highlight of the APRA (Australian Professional Rodeo Association) calendar is the annual National Rodeo Finals and Warwick Gold Cup Campdraft, held in the Darling Downs regional centre of Warwick. As well as the chance to see horsemen

Standing around their kitchen bench, Angus and Brooke Stockman playfully bicker about the number of pets the family has and whether their four children may renovate the family homestead in the future. They bounce off each other with laughter and fini

It was meant to be. When Caroline Gabriel and Shaun Bowden went looking for a property in Melbourne’s near countryside, their wish list included a reasonable train commute to the city, a town with a strong sense of community and culture, and a variet

Good seasons. Bad droughts. Farm accidents. Good succession planning. Bad inheritances. Community as solid as bush baking. Small towns riddled with gossip. In her time as a rural journalist, Maya Linnell has seen and reported on the impact of them al

The tranquillity of a leisurely lunch on the verandah with media academic Rachael Wallis and her journalist husband, Bruce Woolley, is broken by the sound of a siren. It soon morphs into a fire truck that races up the dirt road beside our hosts’ prop

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Renovating an 1890s home in the NSW New England city of Armidale has been a true test of determination for retired pharmacist David Hodgson and his wife, June. As David wryly observes, they have been working on it for the better part of 20 years, so

Ask people what they think of when you mention the Darling Downs and most likely they’ll respond with varying desciptions of rolling plains with paddocks patchworked with golden wheat, rust-hued barley and sorghum, green from vegetable and legume cro

Challenging conditions make you a better gardener, according to Sophie Thomson, gardening consultant, author, columnist and presenter on ABC TV’s Gardening Australia program. “After all, 90 per cent of Australia has harsh, arid conditions,” she says.

It’s little wonder Jo and Kyffi n Thompson’s friends jokingly refer to their Adelaide Hills home as ‘‘the resort’’. Visitors to Aramoola arrive to a landscape filled with Australian native plants and a coach-lamp-lined driveway guides them to a quain

From a disaster igniting entrepreneurial inspiration to breathing new life into family heirlooms, there’s a lot of passion, creativity and talent within the four walls of Lisa Rickert’s beautiful abode. As the CEO and creative director of the family-

ASPIRATION FOR HEAD BOARDER ADELE PROSSER. There are more students at Adele Prosser’s boarding school than the entire population of her hometown of Corrigin, 235 kilometres south-east of Perth in the Western Australian Wheatbelt. The 17-year-old yea

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We again embrace the wonderful diversity of the Australian countryside with stories from all over. We visit the Quinn family on Ilfradale, their sheep station in the lower Flinders Ranges of South Australia, and debut author Meg Bignell at home on he