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Postcard exhibition redefines intercontinental connection and belonging

After eight years, more than 30,000 kilometres and several handfuls of stamps, an international photographic exhibition exploring layers of human connection has come home to Melbourne. World Moments has opened at Magnet Galleries in Docklands, presenting an installation of photography made into postcards and sent to friends of Photographer Eva Rugel as she travelled overland […]

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Cultural melting pot forms fresh bonds in the north east.

Community, Country Lifestyle / Amanda Johnson

Lives have been irrevocably changed for the better in a small northeast Victorian town through an innovative program that turns a spotlight onto the cultures and cuisines of residents. It’s only when you meet some of the people whose lives have been radically transformed by Tallangatta’s Neighbourhood House multicultural program that you really begin to

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Saving Taradale – how one school grew from two students to 75 in just seven years

Community, Country Life, Education, Portfolio / Amanda Johnson

Just months after he landed a part-time teaching job at Taradale Primary School, Chris Burgess was handed the job of acting principal, in charge of just two students. Just seven years later, he has 75 students and leads a thriving school which plays a key role as the heart of the Taradale community – but

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From home brew to high brow – living the dream at the foot of the Grampians

Community, Country Towns, Small Business / Amanda Johnson

Adam Atchison had all the classic ingredients of a construction industry champion in his 20’s. In between building sites, dabbling in different potential careers, and a vigorous social life, he found time to dabble with home brewing for some time – before life, responsibilities and a taste for commercial brews meant he left the re-washed

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Heroes of the butcher’s backroom

Community, Country Towns, Small Business / Amanda Johnson

If the average human diner occupies around half a metre of table space, then Brendan Bouchier’s annual ham customers would stretch well over 15 kilometres, if they were lined up side by side. It’s a magnificent feat for a relatively unassuming (albeit immaculate) butchers shop on the main street of Mortlake, just an hour from

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Postcard exhibition redefines intercontinental connection and belonging

Cultural melting pot forms fresh bonds in the north east.

Saving Taradale – how one school grew from two students to 75 in just seven years

From home brew to high brow – living the dream at the foot of the Grampians

Heroes of the butcher’s backroom

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