Meg O'Brien likes a challenge. She has worked in a metropolitan hospital, done remote nursing and now works in a regional setting as the nurse unit manager in the emergency department of Orange Base Hospital.

WHEN it comes to raising a family, orang-utans go for quality, not quantity.

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HILARY Mantel looks set to continue her dream run with literary prizes when Wolf Hall, her brilliant re-creation of political life in the Tudor court of Henry VIII that won last year's Man Booker, was yesterday named on the long list for the Orange Prize for fiction by women. Last..read more

GLIMPSES of bright orange were once again dancing on the breeze around Kinglake yesterday. But unlike the flames of last year, these jolts of orange came in peace on the wings of butterflies.