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AN UPDATE FROM THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER, DECEMBER 2023
Thank you to you all for your generous support of Highways and Byways throughout 2023. We have had a wonderful year supporting Australian communities with our Small Grants Program to heal and grow with projects that encourage reconnection both to each other and to the...
PRO HART WAY SHOWS NEW LIFE
Broken Hill, NSW Years of drought have taken a toll on the main roads into Broken Hill in NSW. A census found that more than 1,000 trees have died from 3,000 planted. But Pro Hart Way, the road from town to the airport is bucking the trend thanks to a handful of...
HELPING THE MAGIC HAPPEN
Ballarat, Victoria ‘Just put your hands in the dirt and let the magic happen’, is the advice Lou Ridsdale gives the young people at her workshop before they embark on making a mini-garden terrarium. She urges them to have fun, be creative and make something they love,...
WADEYE ON THE MEND
Wadeye, Northern Territory There’s a patch of Wadeye, a remote outback town south-west of Darwin, that’s starting to look pretty good. Two years of weeds, abandoned car parts and town rubbish is disappearing. Slowly, the Thamarrurr Men’s Shed is re-emerging thanks to...
A FOREST OF FOOD
Byron Bay, NSW Young people and community folk around Byron Bay are planting hundreds of trees and creating a fruit food forest. Importantly, they are also learning to improve their environment by nurturing the health of their garden through the use of worm farm...
FINAL REPORT ON OUR 2022 SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM
Highways and Byways is pleased to release the final report on our 2022 Small Grants Program, showcasing the efforts and achievements of our funding recipients nationwide. Each year, our Small Grants Program focuses on an aspect of rural and regional disadvantage where...
2023 JOHN WALLIS MEMORIAL LECTURE
Hobart, Tasmania The 2023 John Wallis Memorial Lecture featured keynote speaker Rev. Dr Jake Mudge, who addressed the topic, You are a Chosen Race, a Royal Priesthood: living fully our shared baptismal calling. Fr Jake, a priest of the Bendigo Diocese, is a staff...
TOOWOOMBA HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS LECTURE WITH TIM COSTELLO
Toowoomba, Queensland Rev Tim Costello AO was this year’s guest speaker at the Toowoomba Memorial Lecture. Led by the unstoppable Pat Quinn MSS, the Highways and Byways Toowoomba Branch organised this fantastic event, and Tim’s memorable insights can be revisited...
RESPONSE TO THE REFERENDUM ON THE VOICE TO PARLIAMENT RESULT
Highways and Byways, in the spirit of the Missionary Sisters of Service, acknowledges that following the referendum result, we are led wisely by the Indigenous Elders who asked for a week to be in silence. We acknowledge their grief. To our Indigenous sisters and...
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