Houses in regional Australia have experienced outstanding capital growth,and there’s no end yet in sight.
For decades,Nagambie was a hidden lakeside gem. Now developers and entrepreneurs have arrived,followed by an influx of tree-changers. Will country Victoria ever be the same?
The latest land-clearing figures for Queensland show reduced activity in sensitive areas but a major increase in the reef catchment area.
The latest purchase was for the Cape Lodge Hotel in the state’s Margaret River region for $9.25 million off fellow WA rich-listers Peter and Joelle Larsen.
Hancock Prospecting Group posted one of the largest profit margins of a private company in the country with revenue up from $10.5 billion to $16.6 billion.
The WA government has announced a plan to amend the Land Administration Act to more easily enable solar,carbon,and wind farms to be built.
Romance might be in the air for some,but for many people,a retreat to the country is all about learning how to live more sustainably.
About 580,000 donkeys,a declared pest,have been culled in the Kimberley over the past 40 years. But one pastoral station is trying to stop the deaths of a herd which could hold the key to fire control in the area.
NSW’s environmental watchdog sought funding for a “discrete project” to detect how much logging was taking place on private land after another government agency failed to keep them informed.
The Kimberley is transforming as cattle producers seek to drought-proof using “pivots” to irrigate huge circles of land. But this requires large-scale clearing.
Apsley,a village in Victoria’s western Wimmera,was dying. But the community bought the pub and saved the town. Now the Border Inn is for sale again.