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Emo and Helen

Grazier Helen Cathles and her stand-up comic son Emo Parsonson share their lives on their family property at Wee Jasper.

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Fleece yields gold once again

Australian wool producers are enjoying a booming market, with trade to China growing to $1.5 billion a year.

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Brumbies shot dead in NSW national park

Six brumbies have been found shot dead in a national park in southern New South Wales.

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Farmers welcome GrainCorp sale knockback

Lucy Barbour speaks to farmers on the NSW southern tablelands, who have welcomed the Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's decision to prohibit the sale of GrainCorp to the American firm, Archer Daniels Midland.

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Thermal missile technology tracks microbat recovery

Researchers are using some unusual technology to monitor microbats and their pups in NSW caves. Thermal video cameras record the flurry of night feeding by the matchbox-sized mammals. Researchers then...

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Best Autumn break for the tablelands

Lucy Barbour spoke with graziers from the southern tablelands of NSW who say they’re having the best start to the season in ‘living memory’.

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Green growth after the drought

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The best autumn season in 'living memory'

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NSW season the 'best' and 'worst' in living memory

"While parts of New South Wales are experiencing the best autumn in 'living memory' conditions in the state's north west are worse than they were during the devastating millennium drought.

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Grazier's decades of wild dog wars

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Grazier reflects on the wild dog 'war'

Lucy Barbour meets retired grazier, John Parker, who has spent decades trying to save livestock from wild dogs attacks.

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Grazier reflects on his 'war' with wild dogs

Imagine having your house burgled over and over again.

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Listen to wild dog trapper, Bill Morris

Retired dog trapper, Bill Morris, from Wee Jasper in southern NSW tells Lucy Barbour what the job is really like.

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From general store 'jail' to wild dog wilderness

It can be a lonely, frustrating profession, but Bill Morris wouldn't trade working as a wild dog trapper for anything.

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Wild dog trapper's long and happy career

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Saving a wild dog's skin

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Trapping wild dogs in southern NSW

Trapping wild dogs

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Rural Reporter: Trapping in the snowy wilderness

Retired trapper Bill Morris has spent years tracking and trapping wild dogs in the Snowy Mountains.

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Guns, knives found during hunting compliance operation

Local hunters are being warned a weekend compliance crackdown isn't a one off, and similar operations are being planned.

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Dozens busted for drugs at Dragon Dreaming festival

Dozens of people are busted for drug possession at the Dragon Dreaming Music Festival at Wee Jasper, near Yass in southern New South Wales.

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Sydney woman found dead at Dragon Dreaming festival 'felt unwell'

A woman found dead at the Dragon Dreaming dance music festival in southern New South Wales on Sunday complained of feeling unwell the night before, police say.

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Toxicology report to shed light on death of Sydney woman at music festival

Police are awaiting a toxicology report to see if drugs were involved in the death of a woman at a music festival near Canberra.

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Magnitude-3.2 earthquake recorded north-west of Canberra

A small earthquake is recorded near Wee Jasper in southern New South Wales, with tremors felt as far away as Tuggeranong in Canberra's south.

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Efforts to restore historic NSW pub end with building burning down

A 19th-century pub in Wee Jasper burnt down after a grassfire started as a man hoping to re-open the historic building was doing renovations.

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