ABC The Bright Side

Hi,

If you feel flattened by the events happening around you, we have a super antidote for you. Please grab a cuppa and enjoy informative, inspiring and enlightening news.

A community cure for diabetes? This pilot program is recording early success and might be a model that can be copied around Australia. 🍽️

Watch this fascinating story — how a prosthetics team in Queensland is helping people get their lives back by crafting body parts.

Read how a farming family has brought this tiny town's post office back from the brink of closure. 📮

A big hat tip to the retirees giving back by volunteering to help communities hit by disaster.

Meet the migrants who help a small country town flourish.

group of four adults and two babies around table.

These friends combined finances to buy their dream house together. 🏡

A bubble curtain is ready if South Australia's algal bloom persists.

Scientists hope planting Palau's "super corals" will save reefs from climate change.

A simple system for composting at home.

Backyard owners encouraged to attract native bees to their gardens. 🐝

And how Melbourne mosquitoes are being used to fight dengue fever and save lives in Laos. 🦟

Thanks for joining me on the Bright Side. 🌟

Sabra

After a fire tore through the bush, 4,000 rare orchids popped up in its wake

The fight to save the veined doubletail orchid had a breakthrough in the Black Summer bushfires and now elders are leading a series of cultural burns to regenerate the endangered flower.

Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr squats with her arms open to hug her daughter at the CrossFit Games.

Motherhood changed Tia-Clair Toomey's perspective, but not her drive

Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr has been considered the CrossFit GOAT for some time, and she is not slowing down.

A black and yellow frog and a woolly alpaca in two separate images next to each other.

Frogs with alpaca genes could soon be hopping around Australia

Disease-resistant frogs, cane-toad-munching quolls and other gene-edited native animals could be roaming the nation within the next decade. What could go wrong?

A sad child sits in a chair with their face hidden behind their hair

What if your child is being bullied, but the school won't act?

There can be a range of clues parents can pick up on when their child is being bullied. Here's how to approach it with your child, and how to advocate for them at school.