Simon Lauder

Behind the awareness drink coasters in this small town’s pubs and clubs is the story of a deeper reform, paid domestic violence leave, which will finally be passed by government this year.

Dedicated carers have endured swampy, mosquito-filled conditions to locate an orphaned wombat joey. And it would give all of them enormous pleasure to let him go.

Conservationists have criticised a federal government decision to build overhead powerlines in the national park as part of the Snowy 2.0 project.

A humble hall in a small NSW Snowy Mountains town has not let its size stop it from hosting Remembrance Day commemorations since opening while the world was last at war.

A resort’s failure to properly maintain and operate its sewage treatment plant led to 14 million litres of partially-treated sewage being leaked into a national park.

They uncovered a shameful secret in the history of persecution of homosexuality in Australia, now the producers of The Greatest Menace podcast are pressing for a formal apology from the NSW government.

It’s been a creeping problem along the coastline of south-eastern Australia for decades. But scientists, traditional owners and commercial fishers are joining forces in a trial project to help save Australia’s Great Southern Reef.

The Eurobodalla Shire Council mayor has asked members of the community to give privacy to the family of a five-week-old baby who died from a head injury on the weekend.

The metre-long snake was found curled up around a change table leg, after following the child's terrified mother through the house and trying "furiously" to get under a door on the NSW Far South Coast.

A letter penned to a young girl and launched into the Pacific 45 years ago has been unearthed on the NSW far south coast, revealing a treasured “blast from the past” and intergenerational friendship.