An expert says current battery developments only just scratch the surface of Victoria's energy storage needs, as Pacific Green Australia announces plans to construct a 30-hectare grid-scale battery park in Portland.
The Baker family’s passion for kites — and their son’s talent for making them — gives them access to a global community with a shared interest that transcends culture and language barriers.
How country-town carpenter and musician Billy Barker's "simple gesture" led to a group of Timorese meat workers performing at one of Australia's biggest music festivals just 12 months later.
There is a small sign in Western Victoria — one of 15 locations around the country, from creeks and waterholes to bores and mountains — that is a racist slur in plain sight.
Residents say a "corrosive" trend to sell fertile farmland to make way for foreign-owned wood plantations is ruining communities and threatening Australia's food security.
Before food even gets to the grocer, tonnes of plastic have been used to produce it on the farm. Now, Victorian farmers have built a recycling plant to tackle the issue — and it all started in the local pub.
At the Colac Salvos, a project to repair and re-use old tents is bringing shelter to those who are often the hardest to help — the growing population of homeless men.
Joy Davis learnt to swim at eight, later dived for thrills into an old quarry and while mayor opened Portland's town pool in 1977. She is still swimming laps to stay active.
In Cavendish, there are only two food joints. Now at the centre of Grampians fires, the often sleepy Bridge Cafe is feeding hundreds of hot, exhausted firies.
Marine biologists will drop 120 tonnes of rubble onto the sea floor off the coast of south-west Victoria to grow new sponge nurseries which act as the forests of the sea.