Bill is a video journalist covering outback New South Wales. He came to the ABC after working in regional television in Wagga Wagga, Dubbo and Orange.
Since arriving in Broken Hill in 2021 he has covered stories including Wilcannia's COVID outbreak, the NSW Government's response to the Ice Inquiry, flooding along the Darling River and most recently the Menindee fish kill.
Bill has worked with Landline, as well as some of the ABC's top current affairs programs including AM and The World Today. He tweets @billormonde_2.
Scott Gladman's mission to swim roughly 16 kilometres a day for more than three months came after two mates were diagnosed with MND and Parkinson's, respectively.
A farmer swimming the length of the Darling River in New South Wales, has passed the halfway mark in his 16-hundred-kilometre endurance journey. 64-year-old Victorian Scott Gladman has spent more than two months in the water - all in the name of raising awareness and money for motor neurone's disease and Parkinson's.
The discovery may trigger questions for the party about the handling of proceeds from the sale of the aircraft.
The circumstances surrounding the death of a Wilcannia woman in 2022 have been the subject of two police investigations and a coronial inquest.
With every cup of coffee, slice of cake and burger served at the Wilcannia cafe, a stigma that has deterred tourists for years is lifting, and it's great news for the young staff.
Wilcannia in outback New South Wales isn't exactly a holiday hot spot but the town is trying to change that. Residents say for too long it's had a reputation as a tough place, now it's becoming a fixture on traveler's itineraries.
A group of Australian university students are in the Okavango Delta as part of a multinational partnership designed to inspire the next generation of conservationists, ecologists and wildlife managers.
Australian university students and staff have found themselves far from home in southern Africa studying the impact of climate change and human development.
Their journey is part of an international partnership teaching and inspiring the next generation of conservationists, ecologists and wildlife managers.
What Botswana's pristine wetlands and waterways are teaching Australians about climate change, over-extraction and conservation.
Domestic and international students turn a remote sheep station into a testing ground for their designs as they compete in the Australian Universities Rocket Competition.
Hundreds of university students and other participants from as far away as India travelled to outback New South Wales over the weekend for an international rocket competition. Roughly 20 teams designed, built and launched rockets from a remote sheep station near the tiny town of White Cliffs.
Transport for NSW will hire graziers to fix roads damaged by months of heavy rain in the remote Far West. But some graziers say red tape is slowing down progress and repairs.
In a remote corner of NSW, a decade-long project has been trying to reverse the extinction of native animals by re-introducing them back into the landscape.
Rural crime investigators are trying to establish the whereabouts of over 200 head of cattle in outback NSW.
The NSW Environment Protection Agency faces criticism after finding high lead contamination at 10 of Broken Hill's 13 childcare facilities.
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.
A conservation project in remote New South Wales is trying to reverse the local extinction of seven native animal species. The Wild Desert program has established ‘exclosures’ to keep feral animals out so native mammals can be reintroduced into the landscape.
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.
Now the team at Wild Deserts is celebrating its 10th anniversary and despite having plenty of success already, they have some lofty goals for the future.
Two months ago, Dave Meadows and his family began travelling around the country feeding the homeless.
Yunta's newest residents turn the taps back on at a historic pub in outback SA.
Hundreds of millions of litres of additional water is being released from the Menindee Lakes system each day to help Murray Cod populations.
Residents living along the Darling River are worried the decision to double water releases from the Menindee Lakes will remove the system's drought reserve. But authorities say it will help rebuild populations of Murray cod downstream.
Once thriving across Australia's arid interior, the Burrowing Bettong all but vanished across the mainland within a century of European settlement.
Wiped off mainland Australia by the introduction of cats and foxes, burrowing bettongs are making a triumphant comeback in outback NSW.
A South Australian farmer is using the profits from his wine label to bring clean drinking water to thousands of Kenyans. His charity also feeds hungry kids to keep them in school.
