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An endurance ride that attracted the likes of cattleman RM Williams during the 1980s is back. While some things have changed, the Winton to Longreach Endurance Ride is still a show of strength, grit, and horsemanship.

About a decade ago, a family-run dairy committed to providing milk for a school breakfast program. It's been fuelling kids ever since.

A rag-tag team of engineers, commercial divers and rev-heads have driven 7km under water across the Darwin Harbour, in a stunt they claim has broken two world records.

On South Australia's wild Limestone Coast seaweed is abundant. Due to the southern ocean's nutrient-rich Bonney Upwelling there are more types of seaweed here than elsewhere in the world, making it the ideal subject for a local art project.

A mouse once presumed extinct in New South Wales has been tracked down in the west of the state, much to the surprise of ecologists.

Retired Perth dentist Richard Slattery gets a kick out of helping former addicts smile again, boost their confidence, and secure jobs — all through getting their teeth fixed.

Shirley Newton captures the beauty of the Wimmera-Mallee region with her hundreds of landscapes and still-life paintings.

For almost three decades, Broken Hill resident Don Mudie has been campaigning for a civic building to be renamed to honour Fred Jobson, 50 years after the artist died.

When Stephen Giles first played a game for the Caramut Football Club, Harold Holt was the prime minister, The Beatles were topping the Billboard charts and the nation had just converted to decimal currency. 

This athlete wants to achieve a lot. But the 19-year-old says if she keeps working towards her goals, then "anything is possible."

Margaret River musician Jay Wood woke from a coma after a car crash left her in a near-helpless state of  'being like a baby", but that hasn't stopped her kickstarting her life from scratch.

Eileen's heart used to beat through her chest due to a rare medical condition. A lung transplant gave her a second chance, and her family would like to see more people register as organ donors.

A Queensland prison that was sending 16,000 empty milk bottles to landfill each month has launched a recycling program so successful it has caught the eyes of other jail program managers.

Loved by many and a self-proclaimed "black sheep", Elaine McCormick has been supplying medicines and health advice to some of Queensland's most remote communities since she was 21 years old.

The Rustic Farm Art Awards were created to help Perth hills communities heal after the Wooroloo bushfire destroyed 86 homes in 2021. 

Two Queensland astronomers will be immortalised in space after the International Astronomical Union announced asteroids would be named after them.

Despite flooding rains across most of the state last year, parts of NSW this year are in drought. Animal conservationists are concerned about the impact these dry conditions could have on monotremes.

Football fans wearing tiger headdresses, hair flowers and flowing yellow, blue and red flags have come from across Sydney to pump up the Colombian national team ahead of today's match.

Independent cinemas in regional Australia say the so-called Barbenheimer weekend led to a fourfold increase in ticket sales, which was much needed after the pandemic changed the way people watched movies. 

When the bell rings inside the fire station, regional firefighter Raoul Otto De Grancy feels a drive within. It's a passion to help others he's felt his entire life.

A book, which names medicinal plants in Barngarla, Latin and English, is helping Indigenous children, as well as members of the Stolen Generations, to establish vital connections to country.

As the horseracing industry looks to focus on life after competing, Dean Saxon is giving rejected racehorses a new and brighter future.

Nate and Lacey Robinson are preparing for the biggest competition of their lives, representing Australia at the BMX World Championships.

Spring Ridge hasn't had a doctor for 30 years, but that all changed when a local farmer met a pharmacist.

Carol Astbury says people still used to ask her "is this legal" when she started as a civil celebrant in 1974. This July marks the 50th anniversary of when civil celebrants were legally allowed to perform marriages in Australia.