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Manly branch president Diana Whitton with some of the CWA postcards.

The feisty women behind 100 years of the CWA

The CWA is celebrating a century of activism. Behind the scones, there’s a quiet army raising funds for bushfire relief and so much more.

  • Julie Power

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Stories of survival: How Aussies are getting by in the bush

The nation’s fatigued farmers are fighting battles on a number of fronts. From time to time, they need a little help. The long-running drought was hard enough. But when bushfire destroyed a plantation of 1000 trees and surrounding fences, farmer Wayne Bannister wasn’t sure where to turn.

  • Nina Hendy