Innovation leads $8m tree-change
OneFortyOne: Innovation and safety are the key drivers behind OneFortyOne’s $8million nursery redevelopment, with a new state-of-the-art undercover handling system leading a number of major upgrades for the Glencoe facility.
Forestry honour bestowed on Mills family
OneFortyOne: A father and son who dedicated 70 years of their working lives to local forestry have been honoured in the naming of a historic Penola reserve.
Legend Award Video 2023 - Dr Jim O’Hehir
Scripted and produced the Legend Award winner’s video for the 2023 Green Triangle Timber Industry Awards.
Walk this Way
SA Life: When Natasha Dawson is out walking along trails near her home on the Limestone Coast, her contentment is palpable and it isn’t any wonder she describes this landscape as her first love.
Divine Intervention
SA Life: All Talitha Becker and Sandy Cameron needed was a “sign” as to whether they should buy a rundown, disused church along the Limestone Coast.
Sunset Community Kitchen
Written and photographed for OneFortyOne’s Community Grants Program.
Extraordinary Women
Six amazing women from across the Limestone Coast, photographed for Women in Regional Business & Development’s Extraordinary Women series.
Set in Stone: Nilpena’s World Heritage bid
SA Life: Behind the wheel of an enormous all-terrain vehicle, his trademark sweat-stained Akubra wedged firmly atop his head, Parachilna pastoralist-turned-tour-guide Ross Fargher is in his element.
The Call of the Wild
SA Life: From the outside, the old stone building looks like any other dotting the paddocks of the Limestone Coast, but step inside to be transported into another world.
The Portrait Project
2022: Ten female artists, ten portrait sessions. The images were transformed into traditional artworks. A collaborative Creative Arts Fund project with Mount Gambier artists April Hague and Jane Van Eeten.
Open All Hours: Mount Gambier’s Corner Shop
SA Life: Whether it’s a carton of milk, a bacon roll or simply some unsolicited life advice, Joan Dixon has everything Mount Gambier locals could possibly need.
Five great hikes of the Limestone Coast
SA Life: From coastline to pine forests, sinkholes to dormant volcanoes, some of South Australia’s best trails await the adventurous in the Limestone Coast, so grab a day pack and conquer these rewarding half-day hikes…
The Herd and The Hearse
The story behind my Nikon Walkley Award for Regional Photography in 2006.
Life in the Ranges
SA Life: After a busy day in the kitchen of the Flinders Food Co, feeding and caffeinating roaming travellers, Doogal Hannagan shuts the doors of his Hawker cafe and takes fiancée Louise for a drive down to Wonoka Creek.
Pushing the border
SA Life: It was the day Bordertown got a show, but the kind rarely written about in art journals.
South Australia’s own wing man
SA Life: Taking to the skies for the past 60 years, in a plane he built himself, South Australia’s own daredevil is showing no signs of coming in to land.
Biker Church
ABC News - On a hot Sunday morning, motorbikes roar down the gravel driveway of a lot in Mount Gambier’s east one by one, lifting a cloud of dust as they pass junked cars and shipping containers.
The Shipwreck Hunter
SA Life: Resting beneath the waves of the Southern Ocean for more than a century, the sunken remains of South Australia’s maritime history have held a lifelong fascination for one young diver.
Good news for Naracoorte as new publication rises from crisis
The Lead SA: As the COVID-19 pandemic throws the regional newspaper industry into chaos, a surprise good news story has emerged in Naracoorte…
Capturing Fringe Mount Gambier
2019 - Official event photography for Fringe Mount Gambier, one of the region’s most popular arts festivals.
Beyond the bookshelves
SA Life: Tucked away inside South Australia’s corridors of power, the Parliament Research Library is more than just books.
The Locals - Photo Exhibition
Fringe Mount Gambier 2020: Twelve Mount Gambians let you in to see their vices and hidden sides.
Heading for Hawker
SA Life: From reviving a historic cultural tourism site to delivering much talked-about food and accommodation experiences, a group of dedicated locals are driving change and setting the new tourism agenda in Hawker – the hub of the Flinders Ranges.
Band-aids, ballroom and big white dresses
ABC News - These bright young things from Mundulla, Bordertown and surrounding districts are participating in a country tradition — the town's annual debutante ball.
Sinkhole Gin crowdfunding campaign
Pozible crowdfunding campaign writing and photography for Sinkhole Gin. Like all good stories, it begins with a late-night gin session…
Creative Arts Fund Photography
City of Mount Gambier: Visual recording of four public arts projects through the Creative Arts Fund.
Big Moo’s fame cashes in for charities
Brand SA - An enormous pet steer has become South Australia’s most unconventional animal fundraiser with his owner using his sizeable star power to boost the coffers of local charities.
Other people’s rubbish: Illegal dumping
ABC News - The illegal dumping of household goods, rubbish and green waste is causing ongoing problems for forestry companies and councils.
Inside the sex offenders program
ABC NEWS - "You hurt me by taking away my childhood and I have not been able to recover my life. I don't feel like a normal person and I doubt that I ever will."
Kelpie lovers seek out ‘Red Dogs’
ABC News - "Just like the movie" read the online classified ad showing photographs of adorable, bright-eyed red kelpie puppies for sale.
Holocaust survivor at peace, 23 years on
ABC News - For 23 years, the ashes of an elderly woman were tucked away at the back of a Mount Gambier funeral home, the small blue box forgotten and unclaimed.
Births, deaths and life as a country vet
ABC News - On the long line of chairs in the waiting room of the Mount Gambier vet clinic, Alex Cape sits alone with a cat carrier carefully placed besides her.