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Eliza Spencer

Eliza Spencer was a rural and regional reporter for Guardian Australia

June 2024

  • Outback building, ploughed field

    The rural network
    How two vehicle breakdowns showed me the best – and worst – of rural Australia

    Eliza Spencer
    When the motorcycle broke down on a backroad near Harden, NSW, I thought we were stuck – until one phone call revealed help was just across the road
  • Sunset along the Waugan Road, Eugowra

    The rural network
    End of the windmill era: NSW switches to safer, more efficient solar water pumps

    Local land services say the new pumps will allow them to remotely monitor water levels, to provide a safe refuge for farmers in times of natural disaster
  • Lindy Newsome

    The rural network
    Why a NSW farmer trapped under a ute called a neighbour, not triple zero, to get to her closest hospital

    The town of Deepwater is in the Hunter New England local health district, whose largest hospital, at Newcastle, is six hours away

May 2024

  • Cowra and Chifley district police car

    The rural network
    Livestock theft has cost NSW farmers more than $930,000 so far this year

  • Farmers from the 2024 season of Farmer Wants a Wife

    The rural network
    Does the farmer really want a wife? In the reality TV world, good farmers make bad husbands

    Eliza Spencer
  • Venting at the Cadia mining operations about 20km south of Orange in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales

    The rural network
    NSW’s Cadia goldmine confirms groundwater affected by potentially toxic mining waste

  • A community walk for Molly Ticehurst around Lake Forbes on Mother’s Day

    The rural network
    Forbes honours Molly Ticehurst with Mother’s Day walk around lake

  • The rural network
    ‘One of the best things that’s happened to farming’: Australian farmers weigh in on Clarkson’s Farm

  • UN Palestine motion watered down to gain more support – as it happened

  • The rural network
    Work under way to bridge 32km gap in NSW dog fence – but ecologists say it should be taken down

  • The rural network
    Australia and the Nutbush: the quest for the origin of a cultural phenomenon goes on

April 2024

  • Man standing holding bee hive frame

    The rural network
    Australian primary producers say they ‘can’t afford’ to pay proposed biosecurity levy

  • Man holds broom in factory

    The rural network
    The last straw: the Snowy Mountains broom-makers keeping a tradition alive

  • Some back yard chooks

    The rural network
    Australia’s back yard chicken owners urged to implement biosecurity measures in case of bird flu outbreak

  • Anthony Albanese addresses the Queensland Media Club in Brisbane on Thursday.

    Australia news live
    PM ‘taken aback’ by speech – as it happened

  • The rural network
    On the lam: Woody the escaped merino shorn after community-wide chase

  • The rural network
    ‘No family, no friends, no backups’: is moving to regional Australia really a fix for the housing crisis?

  • BoM says March was second-warmest on record; Easter campers rescued from Queensland flood waters – as it happened

March 2024

  • A reusable crate full of fresh fruit and vegetables

    The rural network
    Victoria trials reusable crates for fresh produce to cut ‘invisible’ waste from supply chain

  • Jordi Thurtell with a rainbow umbrella

    The rural network
    ‘Our town really needs this’: setting the stage for the first LGBTQ+ festival in Orange

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