Bill Ormonde

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Project restores Bettong population

By: Bill Ormonde

Once thriving across Australia's arid interior, the Burrowing Bettong all but vanished across the mainland within a century of European settlement.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Community concern over doubling of water release from Menindee Lakes

By: Bill Ormonde, Oliver Brown

Mon 22 Jun 2026 at 11:34pm In short: Water releases from the Menindee Lakes have doubled at the request of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Efforts underway to save Murray Cod

By: Bill Ormonde

Hundreds of millions of litres of additional water is being released from the Menindee Lakes system each day to help Murray Cod populations.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Dream becomes reality as couple takes over outback pub

By: Bill Ormonde, Patrick Reincke

Yunta's newest residents turn the taps back on at a historic pub in outback SA.

MSN

Dream becomes reality as couple takes over 127yo Yunta pub

By: Bill Ormonde, Patrick Reincke

Bill Ormonde and Patrick Reincke You've heard a pub with no beer, but what about a town with no pub?

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Project saving threatened species celebrates milestone

By: Bill Ormonde

For the past decade, a group of conservationists has been working to re-introduce locally extinct native species like bilbies and quolls back into a protected area in north western New South Wales.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

VIDEO: Into the Wild: Reversing local extinction of native animals

By: Bill Ormonde

'Exclosures' to keep feral animals out, are allowing the reintroduction of native mammals.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

'Exciting' signs of survival as quolls and bandicoots reintroduced to outback

By: Bill Ormonde

Once locally extinct across outback NSW, bilbies, bandicoots and bettongs are now back and breeding. The desert's revival has been led by a young couple who moved their lives way out west a decade ago.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Calls for investigation into EPA as lead found at childcare centres in Broken Hill

By: Em Jensen, Bill Ormonde

The EPA is under fire for not informing parents that 10 of 13 childcare facilities in Broken Hill had returned high lead levels in the soil. ABC Broken Hill: Em Jensen

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Broken Hill local news briefing

By: Bill Ormonde

Here's what's making news in the Broken Hill region today.