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A house-baked puccia with hot salami, provolone, semi-dried tomatoes, rocket and chilli at Tooradeli.

The Good Food guide to a South Gippsland road trip (feat. this essential sandwich stop)

Conquering South Gippsland’s food trail takes more than a weekend. From artisan cheese to cool-climate wines, use this hit list to fuel your next regional escape.

  • Roslyn Grundy

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Luke Smith, 20, was the pilot of the light plane that crashed on November 16, 2024.

Irregular teachings and risky pilot behaviour linked to crash that killed brothers, cousin

An investigation found practices at Adventure Flight Training school likely contributed to a crash in regional Victoria that killed a young pilot and his two teenage passengers.

  • Angus Delaney
An artist’s impression of the Delburn Wind Farm.

SEC revives stalled Delburn Wind Farm with buyout of up to $700m

Construction of the Gippsland project, which will have 33 turbines, will now be able to begin early next year.

  • Kieran Rooney
Seaspray beach in Gipplsand.

Faced with looming shortfalls, Victoria opens the way for new gas

Despite committing to the transition away from gas, Victoria will grant two new gas reserves in the Otway and Gippsland basins to ensure “an orderly transition”.

  • Bianca Hall and Kieran Rooney
Oh deer: the feral problem in Victoria.

Farmers’ campaign against feral deer trapped in Victoria’s red tape

Marie and David Trigg have fought for three years to control feral deer on their property, but say they have been met with bureaucratic delay.

  • Bianca Hall
he federal government has selected sites for the first wind farms off the Gippsland coast. The projects could one day resemble this Danish wind farm.

SEC fires up first public power asset since ’90s, but wind plans hit as AGL scraps Gippsland project

AGL-backed Gippsland Skies consortium is the third joint venture to walk away from early-stage studies for an offshore wind farm in Victoria.

  • Kieran Rooney and Nick Toscano
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Loch Brewery & Distillery in Gippsland.

The Age Good Food Guide 2026: Best places to eat and drink in South Gippsland

Roughly the size of Malta, this blessed region spills over with cool-climate wineries, artisan producers and dairy farms.

  • Roslyn Grundy
Dr Jill Murtagh and Dr John Murtagh and two of their children, Clair and Paul, outside their country practice in Neerim South in the 1970s.

The country boy with polio who became Australia’s most famous GP

John Murtagh was a boy who learned respect for rural doctoring when he was struck down by polio. He would go on to shape general practice around the world.

  • Tony Wright
A man has been charged over the deaths of nine wombats, including joey Hope’s mother.

Man charged over ‘senseless’ mass slaughter of wombats

Nine wombats were found bearing tyre marks and were artificially staged after being deliberately hit with a car, the Conservation Regulator alleges.

  • Angus Delaney
Victorian National Parks Association campaigner Jordan Crook

‘Harebrained’: Free camping policy scrapped after ghost campers, empty sites

Free camping was supposed to help Victorian families. Instead, it harmed regional communities, critics say.

  • Carla Jaeger