Wiriya Sati is a features reporter in Port Macquarie. Before joining ABC in 2011 as an Open producer, Sati was a freelance documentary film maker and directed, co-wrote and co-shot a half-hour film called The Buddha's Forgotten Nuns. During and before this she was shooting and editing documentaries in the central Australian desert and working with Aboriginal media organisations such as CAAMA and PY Media in a training role. Her interest in Indigenous media took her to the Amazon in Brazil, Venezuela, Peru and Chile. She now calls the Mid North Coast of NSW home. Follow on twitter @wiriyaSati
Sydney’s second airport is named after the first Australian woman licensed to fly paying passengers. But who was the ‘Angel in the Outback’, Nancy-Bird Walton?
The Kulai Preschool, up in Coffs Harbour, is teaching the Gumbaynggirr language and culture to both young and old!
A Gumbaynggirr elder was never allowed to speak her native tongue, but now she learns alongside her great-granddaughter at an Indigenous preschool.
Experts say early exposure to music lessons helps the brain develop, but not-for-profits are relied on too heavily to provide music education to primary school students.
Beautiful Indigenous-themed quilts have been made by a group of women for a NAIDOC Week baby celebration on Worimi country, linking cultures and generations.
When Lillian Rowsell was in her final year of school and unable to continue formal education, her parents found a creative solution.
It was six months before Ed Trotter could return home after record floods on the NSW Mid North Coast. A year on from the disaster, others are still without working kitchens and bathrooms.
When we think of Australia's early penal colonies, the images that come to mind are grim.
Jess Messina is an Australian champion but she has dropped a weight class to find a fight and struggles to find promoters prepared to back her financially.
They may be costly to build, but rotating homes are loved for the way they can move with the sun, capture breezes from any direction and make the most of the scenery around them.
From the outside, Luke Everingham's house looks pretty ordinary.
But, this house can chase the sun - and can change the views out the window.
Story by Wiriya Sati with additional production by Josie Sargent.
As a little girl growing up in the jungle of Cambodia, Phatsa Thort hoped to find her way out of poverty and explore the world.
After hearing harrowing stories of abuse against young Nepalese women and girls, Port Macquarie man Ross Nancarrow wanted to help.
A search has been called off for the day amid rough surf conditions with no signs of a Sydney teenager who was swept out to sea on the NSW mid north coast.
Women are embracing modern pin-up culture as a way to express confidence and joy in their own skin.
Six joeys have been born in a wild koala breeding program that boasts a 100 per cent success rate. The babies are cute, but a hands-off approach is vital if they are to survive in the wild.
Topic: Endangered and Protected Species
The record-breaking floods that drenched the Mid North Coast of NSW in May are just the latest natural disaster to hit the region, with floods deeply woven into the fabric of the region's colonial and Indigenous past.
A rescue crew uses Hansel-and-Gretel-style tree markings, a makeshift bamboo raft and a lot of resourcefulness to save two people and six working dogs stranded by floodwaters in New South Wales.
Growing up in a regional town, April McLennan felt she needed to move to the city to find love and pursue a career in the arts as a queer young person, but she found love and authenticity where she least expected it.
Vision-impaired athlete Timothy Green will race in Sunday's Ironman Australia triathlon. He says Ironman has been "life-changing" and he wants to inspire his young, vision-impaired son.
Crime and policing are state issues, but with recent polling showing it's top of mind for some voters, could it sway federal election votes?
For Stacey Donchi, a shared love of Dungeons and Dragons, Star Wars and board games with Steve Lyons far outweighed her family and friends' concerns about her dating a man with no legs and one arm.
A senior member of the NSW Homicide Squad confirmed police tasered a man armed with a revolver before he was fatally shot by officers outside of Manning Base Hospital on Thursday.
Having a dementia village open in his home town means artist Henry Field can transition into care without compromising his feeling of independence.
Dana Stewart has her Christmas meal ready and in the freezer by November. As a neurodivergent person, she says being prepared is key to avoid the stress and chaos of Christmas.
