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Broken Hill Prison dancers close



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Broken Hill prison NAIDOC signs



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Broken Hill prison Johnny Cakes



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Murray Cooke and Inmate perform



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Broken Hill prison dancers



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Orphaned kangaroo joeys keep outback volunteers on the hop

Helen Semmens has 12 housemates requiring constant attention and feeding at least four times a day. The upside? They are all joeys.




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Fresh Bark group Barka posters



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Anthony Mulundji Hayward



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Fresh Bark Exhibition



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Taya Biggs art



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Jade Cicak



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Young Indigenous artists in outback New South Wales choose to stay on country to further careers

Where aspiring artists often leave home to pursue a career in a big city, this group of young Indigenous artists from western NSW have made the choice to stay on country to make and sell their art.



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Fish kill rescue plan needs to remove fish from Darling River urgently, say Menindee locals

Menindee residents say the New South Wales Government is moving too slowly to prevent the loss of important native fish breeding stock in the Darling River, as authorities warn of further large-scale fish kills in to summer.




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Flights resume at Adelaide Airport following delays caused by heavy fog

Flights resume arriving and departing from Adelaide Airport after delays and diversions this morning because of the heaviest fog since 2003.




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Everyone thought it was a Koran. But this book of poetry was actually a portal to Samia's past

In the old tin mosque in Broken Hill, Samia made a discovery that disproved what historians had thought for more than 40 years.



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Nancy Bates




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Leroy Johnson




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Mutawintji from above




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Barkindji dancers at Nuntherungie





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Thompson family




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Nuntherungie conservation signing




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Aboriginal-owned Mutawintji State Conservation Area doubles in size, adding to NSW national parks

The largest addition to the New South Wales national parks network in almost a decade is welcomed by traditional owners of the land, who say it is a monumental cultural milestone.




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The death of Alex Braes still haunts doctors who didn't even know him

So shocking is the case of 18-year-old Alex Braes, it's prompted a group of clinicians who worked at the regional hospital where he was treated to blow the whistle on what they believe are systemic failures.




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Authorities move fish from Menindee with fish kills expected over summer




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Carol 'Carlotta' Spencer



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Broken Heel Aurora Arsenic



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Broken Heel 2019 town square



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Broken Heel night crowd



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Maude Boat and child



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Broken Heel Festival celebrates diversity and inclusion in outback and regional Australia

Twenty-five years since The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert shone a light on homophobia in the outback, the landscape has changed in regional Australia.



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Murray-Darling art exhibition hopes to raise awareness of 'national disgrace'

A new art exhibition opening in Sydney today brings together some of the nation's leading artists who offer an urgent message about the destruction of the beleaguered Murray-Darling basin.




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Outback life in the arid zone at remote Fowlers Gap research station in New South Wales

Researchers flock to study birds and desert species at Fowlers Gap in the arid zone of New South Wales, where it is remote and isolated but where you can still find friends.



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Outback oasis Copi Hollow remembered fondly as Menindee Lakes' future looks uncertain

Once an outback oasis, Copi Hollow is now almost all that's left of the Menindee lakes system, but its future is uncertain.









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Memories of outback waterholes, water tanks and sometimes a swimming pool were lifeline to those on the land

As landowners clean out enormous water tanks in the hope of rain, their fond childhood memories of swimming in tanks and troughs are in stark contrast to today's dry and parched landscape.



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Organic livestock production on lower Darling halted by drought

The drought takes its toll on organic farmers who say the big dry has ruined their ability to meet the conditions of their licences, so they cannot sell their livestock as organic.




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Notable photo on the money as outback history celebrated on new $20 bill

An empty station homestead in drought-stricken outback New South Wales may look unassuming but has gained renown by being featured on the new $20 banknote.



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Ivanhoe truck and tractor show brings joy in hard times with visitors rolling into struggling outback town

Locals are worried for the future of the small NSW town of Ivanhoe, but a colourful truck and tractor show brought in crowds about three times the size of its population.




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Aerial footage of apparent dead fish along banks of Lake Pamamaroo

Authorities have confirmed it's likely there's been a mass die-off of fish in Western New South Wales




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Apparent mass fish kill spotted at Lake Pamamaroo near Menindee, sparks fears for deadly summer

New aerial footage appears to show thousands of dead fish at Lake Pamamaroo in the Menindee Lakes System, near Broken Hill, nine months after a mass fish kill event on the nearby banks of the Darling River.




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Drone footage shows the extent of fresh Menindee fish kills

There appear to be further fish kills in the Menindee Lakes on the Darling River, with drone footage showing thousands of fish carcasses.