While seven in 10 Australians live in cities, one in 10 live in small towns of fewer than 10,000 people, forming the backbone of regional Australia. Why do some of these towns buck the trend and thrive, while others fade away?
I don’t know if the man being buried at the Lightning Ridge cemetery was particularly large, but his coffin certainly was. Too big, in fact, for its hole.
‘What does it mean to be Australian? It’s a question I ask myself all the time,” says property developer, urbanist and shopkeeper, Linda Gregoriou.