Gippsland
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
Latest
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
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
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
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
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
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
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Medicine
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
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
‘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