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Law & order

Body found in 109-day hunt for Lake Cargelligo shooting suspect Julian Ingram

A body believed to be Julian Ingram, the Lake Cargelligo man sought over a triple murder in January, has been found in bushland near Mount Hope, ending a 109-day search that spanned hundreds of thousands of acres of remote Central West New South Wales.

Cuppa for a cure

Australia gears up for its biggest cuppa yet!

Darren Saffin, Progressive PR
Charity
Cancer Council is calling on Aussies to rally their family, friends, and especially their workmates, for Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, the nation’s iconic fundraiser hoping to turn a cuppa into a cure! ... Cancer fighter Jessica Giddens is organising Nannup's Biggest Morning Tea.

Inspiring new artist

BNW a debut for artist Obi

Denmark Bulletin
Arts
Patricia Gill. Obi Manuel wants to be an artist when he grows up. The 14-year-old made his debut into the art world at the Brave New Works Festival at the end of March. Obi lives with Down syndrome and attends the Albany Secondary Education Support Centre and started drawing and colouring in on bus trips...

Fighting cyber bullying

Do it for Dolly Day: Watch out for fundraisers

On TikTok, an overwhelming 92 per cent of [young] respondents said social bullying - exclusion, rumour-spreading and being left out - is what they witness most often. Over 1,500 schools, workplaces, sporting clubs, community groups and individuals have so far signed up to fundraise in the lead-up to Friday...

Regional life

New guide to help Wimmera migrants settle in region

Wimmera Settlement Services has released a comprehensive Guide and Directory outlining dozens of services, supports and sporting, work, training and social opportunities for new settlers to the region. Available in hard copy and online it aims to help new migrants feel welcome, supported and ready to start of new life in the Wimmera.

After the rain

Tropical low: Rewards and risks

Contributor, Alice Springs News
Flora
Mike Gillam. On March 3 the Bureau of Meteorology recorded an impressive monsoon trough containing four tropical lows each with the potential to develop into a cyclone, hugging the coast of northern Australia ... Moths and butterflies are everywhere and I don’t believe it’s an exaggeration to say that every genus of plants is supporting at least one distinctive species of caterpillar.

Talking rural and regional

Winter weather

Dry winter looms: NSW drought footprint set to expand

Krista Schade, Back Country Bulletin
Agriculture
New South Wales is facing an increasingly parched winter outlook as latest data reveals a looming expansion of drought conditions across the northeast, southeast, and western regions of the state. The latest Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) map ... paints a sobering picture of the state's agricultural landscape.

ANZAC Day 2026 - Westbrook

Westbrook ANZAC service still growing

The remarkable growth in numbers attending the Westbrook ANZAC Dawn Service continued to grow in 2026.

Central Coast

Strong turnout for ANZAC Day

Coast Community News
Community
Thousands of residents and visitors flocked to dawn and morning services all over the region on Anzac Day, April 25 ... "Anzac Day reminds us that individuals sticking together, bound by mateship and a common cause, can move mountains."

Mount Wycheproof

Reflection and remembrance on the Mount

The Buloke Times
Community
The lives of twenty-five World War I soldiers were honoured at Mount Wycheproof on ANZAC Day with the re-dedication of its "forgotten" Avenue of Honour. As a result, Wycheproof's Anzac Day services were very well attended, from the dawn service through to the special event on the side of the mount...

Corryong

Our fallen will never be forgotten

Mark Collins, Corryong Courier
Community
On a wet and cold day - 29th August 1918 - a large gathering of members of the community attended the official opening of the Corryong and District Avenue of Honour ... On Anzac Day 2026, community members again gathered at the Avenue of Honour to officially open a new memorial.

Cadets honoured with memorial role

Mark Collins, Corryong Courier
Community

A selection only of the
ANZAC Day stories and photos from contributing publishers is presented here.

Be assured you will find much more when you explore each of the issues.

Moonta

Dawn of honour

Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Community
Lest we forget. Uniting Church pastor Brenton Smith and RSL Moonta sub-branch president Don Skarstrom finalise the order of service as first light breaks on ANZAC Day, ahead of the Moonta dawn service.

Nuggetty

Nuggetty Peace Cairn ANZAC Service 2026

Brian Fitzgerald. This year was the 20th anniversary of the ANZAC Day Service at the Nuggetty Peace Cairn in Nuggetty School Road ... The Peace Cairn was erected on the site of the old Nuggetty School by the Moss family to celebrate the end of World War I and their son’s safe return from the Western Front.

Allora

Allora’s ANZAC services strongly supported

The community was out in force on Saturday to recognise the brave men and women who served and continue to serve Australia in defence of our freedom.

Grafton Show

ANZAC Day tribute at 2026 Grafton Show

A respectful silence fell across the Grafton Showground on the weekend as the Grafton Show Society commemorated Anzac Day with a small ceremony in the main arena ... a moving tribute to the Northern Rivers Lancers 15th Light Horse Regiment and the unique bonds shared between soldiers and their horses...

Hay

ANZAC Day provides opportunity to pause for reflection

Krista Schade, The Riverine Grazier
Council
As dawn broke across Lachlan Street, the evocative notes of bagpipes rang out, marking the start of ANZAC Day commemorations in Hay ... "ANZAC Day is a day of commemoration and deep reflection, when the true human cost of preserving our freedoms and way of life are brought into sharp focus": Major Ben Jarratt.

Nhill

ANZAC Day 2026

A large crowd gathered at Nhill's dawn service on Saturday morning, with people of all ages paying tribute to those who served in the nation's defence forces. Nhill RSL president John Dunbar said it was the largest crowd he had seen at the dawn service.

Koala monitoring - Vic

Koala observations triple in just one year after tree planting: Koala Clancy Foundation

Contributor, ARR.News
Charity
Koala monitoring on a tree planting site beside the Moorabool River, Victoria has shown an unexpected growth in koala observations in just one year. More than 11,300 koala trees and shrubs were planted on the site by Koala Clancy Foundation and the International Fund for Animal Welfare in the winter of 2023 and 2024 ... audio recorders were set up to monitor the koala population ... See the super video of the koalas nearby.
Koala jumping

Lord Howe Island

Microbats on Lord Howe Island

LHI Board. 17 April was International Bat Appreciation Day and this is an opportunity to reflect on the microbats that share the Island. Microbats are the only native land mammals on Lord Howe Island. Two species have been confirmed in recent decades...
Sable Shearwater

An icon of LHI’s birdlife gets a helping hand and is listed on CMS Appendix II

Stephen Sia, The Lord Howe Island Signal
International
In early-April 2024, the Sable Shearwater (formerly known as the Flesh-footed Shearwater) was added to Appendix II of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS; also known as the Bonn Convention).

Flora

Rare native lilies spotted flowering on stock reserve north of Deniliquin

Kimberly Grabham, Back Country Bulletin
Flora
A striking patch of native Garland lilies has been found flowering on a Travelling Stock Reserve north of Deniliquin, discovered by a NSW Government Murray LLS staff member during routine work in the area. The lilies, known scientifically as Calostemma purpureum and also referred to as Wilcannia lilies, are a native species...

Talking rural and regional

ANZAC Special, plus we get the debrief on Buddy suiting up for Dowerin with Tracy Jones!

No Drama Farmer
Agriculture
A great ANZAC show today! We caught up with Tracy Jones from the Dowerin Footy Club for a full debrief after Buddy Franklin pulled on the boots for the Tigers! Plus your rural news (fuel and fertiliser update) with Fiona L Fox from ARR.News...

Beach safety

SLSNSW distributes publicly accessible shark bite kits to all NSW surf clubs: SLSNSW

Contributor, ARR.News
Community
129 new publicly accessible Shark Bite Trauma Kits will be installed at each of the state’s surf clubs as part of Surf Life Saving NSW’s continued focus on increased community safety. The trauma kits will be affixed to the external wall of each NSW surf club where, in the event of a reported shark incident...

Community festival

Origami Festival a resounding success

This year marked a turning point for the Origami Folding Art and Sound Festival, held at the Japanese Gardens at Gosford Regional Gallery ... Playful, surreal and grounded all at once, the event fostered a shared sense of wonder created in real time.

Community service

Mobile laundry opens behind church every Tuesday and Thursday

They raised $50,000 in six months. Sam Irvine and St Mary’s School students worked hard to make Mary’s Mobile Laundry Trailer a reality. The mobile laundry will open on Tuesday, April 28 at 4–6pm behind St Mary’s Catholic Church ... The service is free...

Fire mapping

Inaugural national fire report highlights extent of ‘second largest’ fire year in the past decade: Charles Darwin University

Contributor, ARR.News

Marine wonder

Family to donate ‘treasure’ beach find to museum

Denmark Bulletin
Land & environment
Patricia Gill. Ryan Clarke made the find of a lifetime, a 328g lump of mostly black substance, ambergris, or ‘floating gold', last week on Ocean Beach. Ryan was walking his dogs on the beach and casting a lure to catch some salmon at low tide when he spotted the lump washed up in the shallows at the sand bar.

ANZAC Day preparations

Getting Ready for ANZAC Day 2026

Emily Gladdis, Nhill Free Press & Kaniva Times
Community
Last weekend, members of the Nhill RSL Sub-Branch, Nhill Lions Club and the Lowan Lodge spent a busy afternoon erecting a great many of the Australian flags at the gravestones of military persons who had served in conflicts across the world. Mrs Jenny Blackwood is to be congratulated on her rigorous research as well as those who have made suitable the boring of holes for the Australian flags.

ANZAC Day preview

It’s almost ANZAC Day, Pete Ramsey New Zealand Veterans Assoc drops in for a chat and James plays a song

Getting ready for ANZAC Day with Pete Ramsey New Zealand Veterans Association drops in for a chat. Plus your country news with Fiona L Fox, farming weather, epic lawn bowls sledges with Doug Kelly and James Blundell plays It's Almost ANZAC Day ...

Whale spotting - Central Coast

Whales are making an appearance

Coast Community News
Marine
The first of the migrating humpback whales have been spotted off the Central Coast but the best is still to come, says Marine Mammal Specialist with Marine Wildlife Rescue Central Coast Ronny Ling ... "The first whales to start travelling are the juvenile males, then the pregnant ones and the mothers with calves from the last few years. The big breeding males then leave and are the fastest travellers."

Algal bloom - SA

Algal bloom on the move

Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Land & environment
Caitlin Menadue. Algal bloom levels are shifting along northern Yorke Peninsula, with concerns growing for local marine life — including the region's well-known stingrays. Recent footage captured in Moonta Bay showed a large fever of rays moving through shallow waters late last month, with locals suggesting they may be trying to escape the bloom.

Rare lizard

Hidden in plain sight: Meet Australia’s newly identified skink species

Contributor, ARR.News
Land & environment
A lizard known to Wiimpatja Aboriginal Owners as Kungaka “the Hidden One” has been formally described as a new species, acknowledged in research published today in Zootaxa. With fewer than 20 individuals of the species known to exist, the Kungaka is also now one of Australia's most threatened reptiles.

Volunteer

Newstead medical physicist grateful to help community

As a medical physicist, specialising in radiotherapy cancer care, Newstead Fire Brigade member Anne Perkins decided she wanted to help her community further when she joined CFA in 2009. Anne and her husband George first joined Newstead Fire Brigade over 17 years ago in response to the February 2009 bushfires, having just moved there three years earlier.

Young leader

Naracoorte’s rising star

Nasik Swami, Naracoorte Community News
Education & training
Leadership, determination, and the courage to step outside one’s comfort zone propelled Jack Barker to a major regional honour. The 17-year-old Naracoorte High School Year 12 student and 2026 school captain has been named the Upper South East Lions Youth of the Year, a recognition that celebrates academic excellence, leadership, and public speaking ability among young people.

New Italy

Italian for a day or for 145 years at New Italy celebrations

Jim Lagerstedt. Belissima! The descendants of the New Italy settlers couldn’t have asked for a better day to celebrate their 145th Anniversary at the New Italy Community Hall on Sunday, April 12.

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