Dates are a niche industry in Australia, but the growers' association hopes the promise of a lucrative export market and a unique geographical position could make it an appealing one.
Bobbi is a transgender woman who lived her first 60 years in the US where she worked as a NASA engineer. But with her home state of Florida increasingly hostile she's found solace in regional Victoria.
Irrigators from New South Wales and Victoria allege the Murray-Darling Basin Authority mismanaged water between 2017 and 2019, costing them more than $1 billion in losses.
More Victorians died of drug overdoses in 2024 compared to any other year in the past decade, a new Coroners Court of Victoria report shows, with a 16 per cent increase in deaths since 2015.