The winners of the 2023 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards have been announced, with Kaitlyn Rutledge of Woodstock and of Timothy Guy of Cowra among the prize recipients ...

Cowra, NSW, was the site of one of World War Two's bloodiest prisoner escapes, but a student exchange program between Australia and Japan launched more than 50 years ago continues to foster healing.

Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms centres on an attempted breakout by more than 1000 Japanese soldiers from the prisoner-of-war camp in Cowra, NSW, in August 1944. A total of 233 died. In this ...