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Critically endangered southern corroboree frog conservation efforts ramp up

After the Black Summer bushfires tore through Kosciuszko National Park, there were fears for the critically endangered southern corroboree frog. Now, 100 of the bright-yellow-and-black amphibians are making a comeback and returning home.

ABC News · Mar 13, 2022

COVID, staff shortages, sector in crisis force more aged care homes to close

Residents in a small rural town feel abandoned and hopeless after the Snowy Mountains' only aged care provider announced it was closing their facility, one of many on a knife edge across NSW.

ABC News · Mar 4, 2022

Bentinck Island's 'last people' fight for their homeland after a lifetime of dispossession

They were one of the last coastal Aboriginal tribes to be removed from their homeland by missionaries in the 1940s, but the Kaiadilt people have never given up on Bentinck Island.

ABC News · Feb 18, 2022