Spring 2023

With our design refresh, we’ve dressed ourselves up in some stylish new togs, and we’re ready and excited to embrace the future in our 30th year.

Meet three of the creative people – Pete Paterson, Kim van Oosterom and Tralee Pearce – behind this issue.

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Painter Sherry Park’s oil portraits rely on soft brushstrokes and a soulful take on realism.

Adventures to put spring in your step

No longer reminiscent of a Mad Max movie set, the township dump has become something of a pleasant, well-managed place, finds Dan Needles.

A look back on how we’ve covered the pleasures and concerns of country life over the last three decades.

The amazing architectural feats (and sometimes cheeky parenting techniques) of nesting birds

Displaced by war, Ukrainians are offered a place of welcome in Headwaters.

“How could I not help those animals that don’t have a voice?”

Bolton author Glenn Carley reveals glory in the ordinary.

The bursary in his name has proved a lasting gift from Mulmur artist Reed Cooper to local artists.