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Former PE teacher serving Australia’s longest child abuse jail time sentenced for crimes against two schoolgirls

William ‘Rob’ Gilfillan will serve time for crimes perpetrated at Traralgon high school in Gippsland concurrently with prior 48-year sentence

The Guardian - AU

Pink platypus spotted in Gippsland far from a monochrome monotreme

Biologist says specimen filmed by a Victorian fisher is ‘unusual’, but not a rare albino as some had wondered

The Guardian - AU

‘I thought i was a dead duck’: Missing camper found alive after 9 days in Australian wilderness

Troy Milne was lost the Gippsland region for more than a week, until he found a way to get the attention of rescue teams

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Glossy black cockatoos could be pushed towards extinction in Victoria if burns go ahead, experts warn

Fire in black sheoak forest of East Gippsland would destroy the birds’ food supply, conservationist says

The Guardian - AU

Mushroom expert gives evidence in Erin Patterson trial

An international expert has told Erin Patterson's triple-murder trial it is "challenging" to identify which mushrooms are poisonous just from looking at them.

AAP

Grief, strength and resistance: The Black Woman of Gippsland is a powerful reckoning with colonial myths

A woman is tossed ashore, bedraggled and alone. She is believed to be a survivor of a shipwreck, possibly from the Britannia or the Britomart, both lost in the Bass Strait that year.

The Conversation

The Black Woman of Gippsland review – in the battle to tell Australia’s history, who gets to be believed?

Melbourne Theatre CompanyThere are some excellent performances and intriguing ideas in Sunshine Super Girl director Andrea James’ new work, but it lacks drama

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This wine region boasts some of Australia’s best vineyards, beaches and wildlife – and you’ve probably never heard of it

Rather than heading west out of Melbourne towards the Great Ocean Road, Rosamund Hall turned east and took the lesser-known route to Gippsland – which she discovered to be a wonderfully scenic region of Victoria

The Independent UK

Magnificent, rare worm with its own campaign song: the giant Gippsland earthworm

This immense worm moves slowly and gracefully underground and can grow to the length of an outstretched arm

The Guardian - UK

Abandoning Bass Strait oil and gas structures would breach international law, expert warns

Australia must insist on full removal when ExxonMobil decommissions offshore project, Wilderness Society says

The Guardian - AU

End of an era – Final sign off for Australia's National Road Series at the Tour of Gippsland

The NRS draws its last breath after decades as top tier domestic series, crowning Keely Bennett and Graeme Frislie as last elite winners

Cycling News

Winds of fortune: 'Job for life' in former coal regions

A gusty $20 billion in investment will blow in from a mere three offshore wind projects that one team plans to build to help rewire industrial heartlands.

AAP

So scarlet it was maroon: five places to watch Australia’s autumn leaves turn

Towns across the country are putting on a show as the cold nights draw in. We’ve picked five spots from Queensland to Gippsland to take it in

The Guardian - AU

Gonorrhoea spike prompts plea for regular testing

Cases of sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhoea and syphilis are rising in the regions, with health professionals urging people to get tested.

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Magnitude 4.3 earthquake shakes large parts of Victoria

Victoria has recorded a 4.3 magnitude earthquake that hit the regional town of Meeniyan in the Gippsland region.

Newcastle Herald

Hunter floating wind farm attracts fraction of Gippsland applications

Floating turbines are a fledgling technology in the industry.

Newcastle Herald

Investor says Victorian 'setback' shows benefits of Hunter wind farms

'You've got a bloody fantastic port there already.'

AAP

Storm toll mounts with second body at flooded campsite

A man's body has been found near an inundated campsite where a woman was discovered dead the day before, in Victoria's east.

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Major project status blows breeze through offshore wind

Another offshore wind project off Gippsland will get special assistance for a speedy build with major project status granted by the federal government.

The Guardian - AU

Bushfires one day, floods the next: why Australia can expect more ‘compound events’

Floods or fires are worrying enough, but as Gippsland has experienced this week, combined they are even more extreme, experts say

The Guardian - AU

PM condemns abuse directed at Lidia Thorpe – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Central Land Council makes yes plea at Uluru – as it happened

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The Conversation

Fire authorities are better prepared for this summer. The question now is – are you?

Last year, campers had to evacuate because of floods. This year, they’re evacuating because of fire. Over Victoria’s long weekend, campers and residents in Gippsland had to flee fast-moving fires, driven by high winds.

AAP

Sydney heat records tumble as fires burn in Victoria

Locals and campers have been told to flee an out-of-control bushfire in Victoria's Gippsland region as Sydney sweats through its hottest October day on record.

The Guardian - AU

Commonwealth Games: Victoria’s regions ‘shocked and disappointed’ after event cancelled

The 2026 Games, which Daniel Andrews announced would be cancelled, was set to be held across Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Gippsland and Shepparton

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