Headlines from regional NSW...

Award-winning playwright PP Cranney starts work this week on a new play about living and working in the Upper Hunter, calling on stories and experiences from the communities in Singleton and Muswellbrook local government areas....

The operators of the new high-speed ferries between Manly and Sydney's CBD say they have had a 100 per cent on-time running record since starting business....

Next month retired mine workers will get together for lunch, a few drinks and - judging by the organisers we met last week - more than a few laughs....

Hans Post was in the Nazi SS, and at the end of the Second World War lied about his war history in order to avoid prosecution. He was imprisoned in the French prisoner of war camp Thoree le Pins. There he witnessed suicide and starvation and emerged after 6 months weighing only 78 pounds. He found his ...

Hans Post grew up in a German family who were fervent supporters of The Third Reich. He absorbed the ideology almost unquestioningly, joining the Hitler Youth and eventually the SS. He fought with an elite unit of the SS, saw a lot of death, but was also awarded The Iron Cross First Class for ...

Marie Armstrong began her long stage career as a ringleted, Shirley Temple look-alike but went on to become a member of Sydney's popular and notorious New Theatre. During the iciest days of the Cold War some called the New Theatre a front for the Communist party. Marie, like many others to come, ...

At age seven, after the breakdown of her parents' marriage, Anne travelled with her mother and sisters back to her mother's home town in central Victoria to begin a new life. In this series of vignettes, or scenes, from her early years, Anne is alive to the pain, fear and joy of childhood, as well as the ...

Today Robert Gray speaks about his recently released memoir, The Land I Came Through Last. Robert Gray was born in 1945, in Port Macquarie in New South Wales. He grew up in Coffs Harbour, where his mother struggled to keep the family together as his aristocratic, alcoholic father drank away the ...