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Daily Telegraph
09-07-2025
- Business
- Daily Telegraph
Inside the cheapest homes in NSW
Two unique homes – one with a mysterious dunny out the back and an unusual shower setup – have been listed for a rock bottom price that's made them the cheapest homes for sale in NSW, outside of retirement communities. Listed at $45,000 each, these NSW homes are over 27 times cheaper than the state's median property price of $1.24 million. Located in the remote towns of Lightning Ridge and Brewarrina, these residencies are far from the creature comforts of the city, each situated in NSW's northwest. The separate locations are both over eight-hour's drive from Sydney. The Lightning Ridge property, located on Stoneys Rd, is in need of considerable refurbishing. It is described by the listing as a 'one-to-two bedroom camp', with an open-plan living and kitchen area and a bathroom with a separate toilet. There are also two garden sheds and a water tank on the premises. There is an outdoor toilet too – with listing images revealing an interior stacked with firewood. Pictures of the shower reveal a setup with a bucket and hose – although it is not clear what purpose they serve. MORE:Man's outrageous home bling has everyone talking Lightning Ridge – an opal mining town – recorded a population of 1,946 during the 2021 census. Sitting on the Queensland border, the town is 726km from Sydney and 719km from Brisbane. Even for the area, this property is a bargain, with the median price of homes in Lightning Ridge being $190,000 as of June 2025. MORE: Suburbs where prices are rising by $1k a day This Brewarrina property – also listed at $45,000 – is described by the listing as a 'renovator's delight'. Southwest of Lightning Ridge, the town of Brewarrina recorded a population of 743 in the 2021 Census. The one-bedroom, one-bathroom cottage was constructed in 1958 and includes a single car garage, a lounge and a kitchen and dining area. The lounge and bedroom include reverse cycle airconditioning, suitable for the hot summers in the state's northwest. MORE:Home reno warning Aussies shouldn't ignore MORE: Aussie celebs' most bitter, expensive divorces exposed It appears to need a good amount of elbow grease to get up and running, with the listing stating that the bathroom, kitchen and laundry will require 'some repairs to revitalise their use'. According to the listing, the block is 'divided into three yards', with a stable in the third yard that has been damaged by a fallen tree branch. The property is just below the median house price in Brewarrina of $57,500. According to PropTrack, the median price of a home in regional NSW has grown 4.3 per cent in the year to July 2025, more than Sydney's annual growth of 3.3 per cent.
News.com.au
08-07-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Inside the cheapest homes in NSW
Two unique homes – one with a mysterious dunny out the back and an unusual shower setup – have been listed for a rock bottom price that's made them the cheapest homes for sale in NSW, outside of retirement communities. Listed at $45,000 each, these NSW homes are over 27 times cheaper than the state's median property price of $1.24 million. Located in the remote towns of Lightning Ridge and Brewarrina, these residencies are far from the creature comforts of the city, each situated in NSW's northwest. The separate locations are both over eight-hour's drive from Sydney. The Lightning Ridge property, located on Stoneys Rd, is in need of considerable refurbishing. It is described by the listing as a 'one-to-two bedroom camp', with an open-plan living and kitchen area and a bathroom with a separate toilet. There are also two garden sheds and a water tank on the premises. There is an outdoor toilet too – with listing images revealing an interior stacked with firewood. Pictures of the shower reveal a setup with a bucket and hose – although it is not clear what purpose they serve. Lightning Ridge – an opal mining town – recorded a population of 1,946 during the 2021 census. Sitting on the Queensland border, the town is 726km from Sydney and 719km from Brisbane. Even for the area, this property is a bargain, with the median price of homes in Lightning Ridge being $190,000 as of June 2025. This Brewarrina property – also listed at $45,000 – is described by the listing as a 'renovator's delight'. Southwest of Lightning Ridge, the town of Brewarrina recorded a population of 743 in the 2021 Census. The one-bedroom, one-bathroom cottage was constructed in 1958 and includes a single car garage, a lounge and a kitchen and dining area. The lounge and bedroom include reverse cycle airconditioning, suitable for the hot summers in the state's northwest. It appears to need a good amount of elbow grease to get up and running, with the listing stating that the bathroom, kitchen and laundry will require 'some repairs to revitalise their use'. According to the listing, the block is 'divided into three yards', with a stable in the third yard that has been damaged by a fallen tree branch. The property is just below the median house price in Brewarrina of $57,500. According to PropTrack, the median price of a home in regional NSW has grown 4.3 per cent in the year to July 2025, more than Sydney's annual growth of 3.3 per cent.
ABC News
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
How Aboriginal-Filipino rapper DOBBY found his voice, seeing his teenage dreams come true
The first thing Murrawarri Filipino rapper DOBBY does when he arrives on his Country is greet the river. For DOBBY, Wahwangu (the Barwon River) is an ancestor and taking time for this greeting does more than reconnect him to the river, it centres him. "I take in a deep breath and I just say, 'Alright I'm here.' It gives me that peace, that tradition," DOBBY tells Compass. His passion for Murrawarri Country runs deep. In fact, it was seeing this river and the nearby community of Brewarrina, in north-west New South Wales, in extreme drought that inspired DOBBY's ARIA award-winning album, Warrangu: River Story. "[It's] been a creative process that's taken over seven years to put together. It was a lot of investigation at first just understanding as someone who didn't grow up in [Brewarrina], what's important to the mob here," he says. By weaving together soundscapes, the voices of cultural knowledge holders, haunting melodies and his own idiosyncratic lyrics, the album has become an urgent call to action to protect the environmental and cultural value of these rivers. "I'm really, really proud of how it's resonated with people," he says. DOBBY grew up as Rhyan Clapham in Warilla on Dharawal Country, south of Wollongong in New South Wales. His mum still lives in the house where he was raised, and walking into DOBBY's teenage bedroom is like stepping out of a time machine programmed for the mid-2000s. The walls are plastered with his heroes; Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Bliss n Eso jostle for space among ticket stubs, and high-school certificates voting him "Most likely to be famous" and "Most likely to become a musician". DOBBY still has the first CD he made at the age of 12. The carefully hand-drawn cover art is a nod to the metamorphosis he was going through, but the text is where his dreams really took shape. "Get this right, it says, 'Rhyan Clapham … 2006 ARIA winner,'" he says. While it would take almost 20 years for his ARIA award moment, DOBBY started to get a taste for success just two years after making his first CD. At 14, he wrote a song called 2528 about Warilla, rapping about the poverty and violence in his neighbourhood. It became a local hit, getting as many as 12,000 plays and was even picked up by local radio. But DOBBY soon started to realise his words had power. Not only did a local radio announcers chastise him on-air for "glorifying gang violence", but DOBBY also suffered a coward punch by some local boys who took exception to his lyrics. "And in that moment, I realised truthfully the responsibility of what music can do, because here I am trying to find a voice and realising that things that I say there is always going to be consequence," he says. This sense of responsibility has stayed with DOBBY over the years and while he's built a reputation as a rapper with something to say, finding his place in music took some time. He's a rapper, a drummer, a composer, and producer. He was the composer for the documentary WINHANGANHA (2023), created soundscapes for PARRTJIMA in Alice Springs and scored the 500-strong drone show, Elevate Sydney. It makes it difficult to put DOBBY neatly in a box. "I'm too this, or not enough this. [But] hip hop, it never judged me … I could kind of bring to it who I was. No matter how geeky, no matter how Aboriginal, no matter how white, no matter how Filipino, whatever I am, it was just my story," he says. And that story is as unique as his music style. DOBBY's mother Luz Clapham emigrated from the Philippines in 1985, and his father Ted Clapham is a proud Murrawarri man. His parents split when he was just five-years-old, but they've each had a profound impact on both his music and cultural identity. When he was just seven-years-old, DOBBY's mother bought a piano on lay-buy in the hope he would learn to play. "Even if we don't have money for groceries, I would have to pay [for] the piano," she explains. "My father was a member of [a] band in the Philippines. That was my ambition — to play the piano. But then I did not make it, so I asked Rhyan [DOBBY] to finish the ambition." Meanwhile, DOBBY's father is a retired carpentry teacher, and the link to DOBBY's Murrawarri identity. "I had a different identity, and it applied to me being Filipino and it applied to me being Aboriginal. I was trying to navigate where all of those different puzzle pieces of me sit," DOBBY says. "Knowing your Aboriginality is an important obligation if you choose to identify — understanding the real implications of that lineage, that ancestry." And for him, that lineage and ancestry run straight to Wahwangu and Brewarrina, which is home to Baiame's Ngunnhu. It translates to 'the Creator's fish traps' and refers to sacred structures that stretch across the Wahwangu, which are estimated to be over 40,000 years old. Brewarrina is also where DOBBY's grandmother was born and raised, while his great-grandfather father, George Shearer had been born in Weilmoringle under the birthing tree on the Culgoa River. "Each time the station was sold, [George] went along with it as part of the property," DOBBY says. "There's so much that needs to be done, and so much power that needs to be given back to our mob and I feel like to me music is the key," DOBBY says. It's one of the reasons that DOBBY is now an ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) and has taken part in the foundation's 2025 Busking for Change initiative. DOBBY co-wrote the song Country Tells Us When with entertainer Justine Clarke (Playschool), and singer-songwriter Josh Pyke. Now in its third year, Busking for Change invites schools around the country to learn the song and raise funds to help kids in remote communities. "It's a universal thing. We all love to sing, especially kids and then if we're able to sing and learn language then we're understanding our country better," DOBBY says. "I think about what a song like this does not just for the rest of these schools in Australia to learn Yawuru language (from Broome and the surrounding area), but what it means for Yawuru kids to then go back to their community to sing this proudly." Looking ahead, DOBBY is now working on a new album. "This album is very inward, and it's me speaking to my younger self, exploring my boundaries, I'm exploring my self-doubt. I'm exploring my anxieties," he explains. It means the new album is taking him in a very different direction from Warrangu: River Story. He's also exploring his Filipino roots musically. It's something he's been wanting to do for a while. "I'm talking to my mum a lot more about bringing Tagalog into my raps … Sometimes I'll write a rap and then she'll say, no, that's not correct. And I got to work on my pronunciation," he says. "So, there's a lot of work to be done but it's really exciting." Watch DOBBY — Finding My Voice on Compass tonight at 6:30pm on ABC TV, or stream now on iview.
ABC News
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Coming up: DOBBY — Finding My Voice - ABC Religion & Ethics
DOBBY is a Filipino-Murrawarri rapper determined to use his voice to send a powerful message around climate, racism and injustice. We follow him to his childhood home and on to Brewarrina for a moving performance. Coming up 6:30pm Sunday 6 July on ABC TV and anytime on ABC iview. Posted 1h ago 1 hours ago Mon 30 Jun 2025 at 6:21am
