The Latest Breaking News from Gippsland

Australian farmer turns poultry waste into power, fertiliser and natural food dye

An Australian poultry farmer is developing a system that could turn thousands of tonnes of chicken waste into electricity, fertiliser and natural food colouring, creating multiple products from a material that is commonly used as agricultural manure. Chris Freney, who operates a poultry farm in Toongabbie, in Victoria's Gippsland region,…

The Times of India · Oct 23

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake just shook southeast Victoria. Here’s why we may expect more

At just after 2am on Saturday morning, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake occurred at Arawata, about six kilometres northeast of Korumburra and 100km southeast of Melbourne.

The Conversation · Oct 5

Victoria police hunt for man on run after allegedly attacking brother and parents with axe

Police say they believe argument took place before three people critically injured in Gippsland town of Tyers on Saturday

The Guardian - AU · Sep 6

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 · May 13, 2025

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 · May 12, 2025

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

The Guardian - AU · May 10, 2025

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 · Apr 3, 2025

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 · Mar 29, 2025

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 · Oct 28, 2024

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 · Oct 5, 2024