Life outside the city

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River Murray Recovery Stories

Rebuilding a Sense of Purpose and Providing Mental Health Support with Shelley Rose

Across 440 kilometres of flood-devastated communities, one well-being officer armed with a four-wheel drive, paint brushes, and 23 years of local trust became a lifeline for hundreds of people the system had forgotten.

Kintsugi Heroes

Finding Resilience and Surviving the Three Ds with Natalie Stockdale

After losing 7,000 sheep to drought, her marriage, and then her health to breast cancer, Natalie Stockdale turned three devastating Ds into a toolkit for resilience that now helps others rise from their darkest moments.

Animals & Us

Farming with respect for animals and land with Dr Nan Bray • Animals & Us E12

A marine physicist who chose sheep farming learned that reducing stocking rates solves animal welfare and land regeneration at once.

Beyond the Deluge

Beyond the Deluge: Broke & Hunter Valley Floods Podcast Launch Event

Two years after the worst flood in 70 years swallowed the village of Broke, the people who held the community together reveal what it truly cost them — and why they're not going anywhere.

Connecting Seniors

Farming with Respect for Animals and Land with Nan Bray

A former oceanographer who traded ocean currents for Tasmanian pastures proves that kinder, nature-led sheep farming is not only possible — it is profitable, healing, and quietly revolutionary.

Alpine Bushfires

A Meticulous Record from a Farmer's Perspective with John McEvoy

A humble farmer-teacher who kept meticulous records of every name and act of courage during Black Saturday reveals how an entire community held itself together — and how a draft horse protected a flock of sheep from the inferno.

Beyond the Deluge

A Love of Wollombi, Volunteering in the RFS & the Historic Pub with Chris Brooks

From Army recruit to pub custodian, Chris Brooks weathered bushfires, a pandemic, and the worst flood in 70 years to keep the heart of Wollombi beating — and never once considered giving up.

Beyond the Deluge

The Traumatic Impact and Toll a Flood Takes with Leith Moonen

When the worst flood in 70 years swallowed his heritage schoolhouse home, Leith Moonen discovered that surviving a natural disaster means battling not just floodwaters, but two years of invisible trauma, contamination, separation, and the silence of emergency services that never came.