She is one of at least four women and two children to leave Crooked Tree Ranch and seek other services since the safe house opened to survivors in 2023.

Practical outcome: requests reach a gateway with spare capacity, hop onto fast terrestrial links, and return the same way.

In north-west Victoria, a David and Goliath battle is playing out between farmers and the rare earths mining industry which has been backed by state and federal governments as the world scrambles to ...