GALAH is a new, reader-supported magazine about regional Australia - a modern voice from the bush.

The publishing industry recently honoured this magazine with two big awards: Launch of the Year and Editor of the Year.

GALAH is a cultural magazine that explores life in regional Australia, covering the arts, food, travel and design as well as big-picture issues like water, decentralisation and community.

Their mission is to deliver truth and beauty and to tell the stories about regional Australia that go beyond drought, floods and fires.

At 176 pages, Galah Issue 09 is full of beautiful images, gardens, recipes and feel-good tales of community, centred around this issue’s theme of ‘Growth’. It makes the perfect mother’s day gift or companion for a quiet cup of coffee.

Here’s a sneak peak of what you’ll find in Issue 09:

• How an amateur musical changed a small town
• Celebrate the life of master artist John Olsen
• Chart the Great Regional Migration with Gabrielle Chan
• Take the plunge with the underwater gardener
• The late blossoming of an opal-mining artist
• Talk radical garden design with Kurt Wilkinson
• Pack the picnic blanket for autumn lunch
• Hooked! Fly fishing, obsession and mindfulness
• Building a library, rebuilding a life
• Follow an insider’s travel guide to Orange
• Make a sea change, with oysters
• Visit the land where chocolate grows on trees