News edition for 23 June 2026. Added to Nungya on 22 October 2026 as part of our retrospective news archive. Reporting reflects information available by the edition date.

A river does not stop at the point where a photograph ends. Neither does the work of caring for the surrounding Country.

A 24 November 2025 profile on Indigenous.gov.au follows Bryce Cranney and Nash Falls of the Berinbah Rangers at Collum Collum Station in northern New South Wales. The property sits on Bundjalung Country, near the Clarence River and Gibraltar Ranges.

The report describes work across connected tasks: caring for waterways, mapping areas for conservation and cultural protection, and using cultural burning practices. It identifies freshwater life, including eastern freshwater cod and platypus, alongside animals that depend on the surrounding land.

This June edition revisits that earlier account. It does not establish the team’s current project timetable or invite the public onto the station. Cultural burning is mentioned as professional ranger work described by the source, rather than as an activity readers should attempt themselves.

What makes the profile compelling is the way a job is tied to a particular place. “Land management” can sound abstract until the report names a river, a species or a task. Keeping those details in view helps avoid flattening very different ranger programs into one national story. Collum Collum has its own landscape and responsibilities, and the people working there deserve to be read on those terms.

Read the original report: Berinbah Rangers caring for Bundjalung Country at Collum Collum Station.