Nathan Morris

Its water creates a home, a playground and a food bowl – but those who live on the Murray believe it can be managed better. We take a look at life on Australia's longest river.

Environmentalists and farmers are hardening their resolve against a proposal to inject liquefied carbon dioxide into Australia's biggest underground fresh water reservoir.

For many Murray-Darling Basin communities, the water provides far more than what's grown on the land. Talk of drought and water buybacks have some worried about the future.

Among the long rows of glossy publications that cater to the reading needs of home renovators, gold hunters, hobby farmers, celebrity watchers, and puzzle lovers, this newsagent is witnessing a resurgence in demand for print magazines. 

Farmers fighting Santos's Hunter Gas Pipeline suddenly noticed survey pegs along the route. A title search shows the surveyed land is now owned by the directors of the company negotiating land access for Santos.

Five homes and five sheds are destroyed in multiple bushfires burning in sparsely populated bushland near Tara and further south near Millmerran, and authorities expect more will be lost. 

El Niño is back and drought is on the doorstep. Some farmers have been feeding livestock for months. Here's what it might mean for the economy and food prices.

Dimethoate is already banned in Europe, and now Australia's chemical regulator has suspended its post-harvest use on the popular fruits, so what's the risk if you've been eating them for years?

Almost 33 per cent of Australians feel disconnected socially, and one in six feels severely lonely, according to a landmark study. But there are ways to feel less alone.

Australia's unemployment rate is the lowest in almost 50 years. That's good news, but not if you're throwing a barbecue. Here's why. 

If you think your favourite chocolate treat seems a bit more expensive than usual, you are not wrong — and analysts say factors including weather and war will keep pushing the price up.

States and territories have agreed to phase out "conventional cages" in egg production by 2036. Could this make it easier to buy eggs from happy hens?

Tony Gibb employs hundreds of people to help run his farm – but with the climate one of his key challenges, he's also now got a world-leading climate scientist on the books.

Over the next decade, renewable projects in Queensland are set to generate enough new energy to power about 6.6 million homes. But what does this mean for the communities that will host this infrastructure?

Financial pressure on households has never been higher, and more of us are spending beyond our means than ever before, according to a long-running survey. 

Thought snakes and crocodiles were the main hazard in the outback? Think again. Motoring experts say after the big wet season cars are catching alight due to vegetation growth.

It's a feat of persistence and imagination — 87 children come together to perform a most unlikely musical. Whether they're bull riders, dancers or lawn bowlers, they're all discovering themselves in isolation.

Power and money are pitting neighbour against neighbour as one old farming community grapples with a new, rapidly growing industry.

Australia needs an inland rail, but a new report finds advice was ignored, the board does not have the "skills required", and there has been an "astonishing" cost blow-out to $31.4 billion.

Kabir is one of thousands of asylum seekers living in Australia without a visa. He has not been detained, but without the right to work or access to Medicare, he is trapped nonetheless.

Major coal miner Glencore has been lobbying for legislation to be changed to prevent legal challenges to a controversial carbon capture and storage project in the Great Artesian Basin.

Alarmed farmers say Glencore's plan to pump waste carbon dioxide into the Great Artesian Basin could damage the "lifeblood" of much of regional Australia.

As the residents of Tara come to grips with the Train family's calculated killing of three beloved locals, some fear their town may be written-off as a "conspiracy" hub, while others are reeling with anger.

Despite all the flooding this year, experts warn that country towns are even more likely to run out of water during the next drought, but why?

A petroleum engineer says he warned regulators years ago about the risk of chemicals, such as cyanide and benzene, spreading through groundwater beyond a failed underground coal gasification site in Queensland.