This small town on the Wimmera River has an attraction like no other, and many are uprooting from the big cities and settling for a quieter life in its suburbs.

And have you heard about the latest bestseller in post-COVID reading: The World Caught a Germ? Written by a preschool teacher from Tumut, it explains the pandemic to little children but really it is helping us all to understand.

Perhaps you've heard of coal ash, but have you thought about how it can be reused and why we'd even bother?

These are some of the stories we dig into in ACM's newest podcast, the Voice of Real Australia.

Building on our popular Voice of Real Australia newsletter and Facebook page, the podcast will take listeners to new people, places, and perspectives around Australia.

Each episode will draw on ACM's Australia-wide network of more than 600 journalists to tell character-driven stories from beyond the big cities.

You can listen to the first episode here