‘I doubt I’d be alive’:how beating addiction saved actor Steve Bastoni

‘I doubt I’d be alive’:how beating addiction saved actor Steve Bastoni

Best known for roles in Neighbours and Police Rescue,the actor has forged a new career in film festivals and mental health advocacy.

  • byKerrie O'Brien

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Broken Hill,travel guide and things to do:Nine highlights

Broken Hill,travel guide and things to do:Nine highlights

From a long cold milkshake,to that other type of Milky Way,to camels in a main street,to ancient Indigenous art - there's plenty to see in this remote NSW town and surrounds.

  • byAnthony Dennis
Silverton,NSW,'Mad Max 2:The Road Warrior'location:40 years on,tourists flock to apocalypse

Silverton,NSW,'Mad Max 2:The Road Warrior'location:40 years on,tourists flock to apocalypse

It seems there are no distances too far for Mad Max 2 devotees to travel to pay homage.

  • byAnthony Dennis
Broken Hill,NSW:The great missing Royal Flying Doctor plane search

Broken Hill,NSW:The great missing Royal Flying Doctor plane search

Inside a hangar at its Broken Hill base,the Royal Flying Doctor Service has painstakingly been reviving its past and the latest piece of the aeronautical jigsaw is now in plane sight.

  • byAnthony Dennis
NSW outback roads:Broken Hill to Tibooburra,now sealed,opens up opportunities

NSW outback roads:Broken Hill to Tibooburra,now sealed,opens up opportunities

The full sealing of a NSW outback highway is helping open up the far west to tourists and locals.

  • byAnthony Dennis
Brushman of the bush Jack Absalom dead at 91

Brushman of the bush Jack Absalom dead at 91

Mr Absalom was a popular artist outside the art world who often depicted the beauty of the outback around his home in Broken Hill.

  • byNick Bonyhady
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Five new Country Universities Centres to stop'brain drain'

Five new Country Universities Centres to stop'brain drain'

Alex Forner,who did her bachelors and honours degrees from Broken Hill and is about to begin a post-graduate certificate,will soon become the only local psychologist-in-training at her clinic.

  • byPallavi Singhal
'Worlds apart':What happened when the outback came to Lakemba

'Worlds apart':What happened when the outback came to Lakemba

Two principals,one an Aboriginal woman,the other a Muslim,came up with a novel way to break down barriers between their cultures

  • byJordan Baker
Locusts swarm as Broken Hill aims to boost film business

Locusts swarm as Broken Hill aims to boost film business

It has lost out on Mad Max but the outback city is looking to foster its own industry.

  • byGarry Maddox
Kangaroo cull to increase with restriction on harvesting licences axed

Kangaroo cull to increase with restriction on harvesting licences axed

The cap on kangaroo harvesting licences will increase the number killed.

  • byJulie Power
Biggest shire'voiceless'as Darling River water issues come to a head

Biggest shire'voiceless'as Darling River water issues come to a head

Local communities in the far west of NSW remain"voiceless"over issues such as the health of the Darling River.

  • byPeter Hannam