New South Wales Features

    Drovers and conservationists rally to protect routes and reserves.

    A long fight for the long paddock

    New South Wales' travelling stock routes and reserves (TSRs), provide land that drovers and apiarists rely on for their living and that many of us use for a dip in the river or a picnic in the scrub.


    National Party leader Warren Truss talks with growers

    Anger grows over Alstonville closure

    Rallies, posters and committees are being set up to stop the closure of the DPI's Centre for Tropical Horticulture on the NSW North Coast.


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    Home owner advice on managing locusts

    NSW DPI provides valuable information to urban dwellers as locusts swam start to move into urban areas of Southern NSW.


    Vintage tractors

    Dorrigo turns out for annual ag fair

    If horses, cattle and woodchopping weren't enough then the vintage tractors, whipboxing and bush dog trials certainly helped make this local show a success over the weekend.


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    Macdonald defends DPI cuts

    The NSW Primary Industries Minister has defended cuts to his department in the state's minibudget, saying they will save millions of dollars.


    The NSW district of Forbes has been in drought for the past eight years.

    Forbes fights for its golf course

    The town of Forbes, in the central west of New South Wales, looked set to lose its golf course this summer, but locals have come to its rescue.


    A child's hand reaches into a biscuit container

    Overweight dads lead family fitness campaign

    Who talks the most about eating healthy food in your home? A program underway in Newcastle encourages dads to lead the way.


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    Stellar cast of campdrafters at Gladstone

    Throw in a bit of dirt with the saddles and spurs, add some good cattle worked by the best riders and horses around and you've got yourself a mighty fine weekend of campdraft action.


    Composting worms at Australian Vermiculture

    Worm farm near Broken Hill reducing waste and fighting aphids

    You may have seen a worm compost in someone's garden before, working to break down their garden scraps into rich, healthy mulch.

    Well, imagine a worm farm doing that for a whole town's green waste, and you'd see something like Australian Vermiculture in Broken Hill.


    An online program to help men lose weight is proving successful in NSW.

    Men shed weight in the Hunter

    An on-line program to help men lose weight in the Hunter region of New South Wales is so successful men are lining up to join.