The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the pipeline of overseas-trained doctors.

DonateLife Week runs from July 26 to August 2.

The serious cumulative trauma of a horror bushfire season, relentless drought and now COVID-19 has not been lost on Lifeline Australia.

"There's no way I would be where I am now without it."

"We're designing something from the ground up ... and the responsibility rests with us to create something unique and very special and highly valued by the students of tomorrow."

It began with two students and since then 115 Ezidi students have joined the centre, which prepares them for high school education. From next year it will become the first Intensive English Centre in country NSW.

Bushfire survivors Leah Milston and partner David Wallace fled Mogo for Katoomba in April.

Every weekend, a small group of volunteers will drop gift hampers off to country people doing it tough.

An advocate and candidate have their say.

Documenting how families and individuals' lives have changed during the coronavirus pandemic is important for the history books.

The festival has been chosen as it showed an innovative way of bringing the community together.

A former ACT Emergency Services commissioner has told of the chaos as thousands of tourists were evacuated from Lake Conjola as fires bore down on the South Coast hamlet.