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A lack of emergency care training is putting nurses in vulnerable positions during rural and remote placements, according to a national report.

Warwick on Qld’s southern Downs is defying every market prediction - a place where property prices have gone up while everywhere else seems to be going down.

Regional Australia has been key to so much of Australia's cinematic success. Can Australia's film industry produce another outback classic like Crocodile Dundee?

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

Following the devastating flood disaster the ever-growing Nepali community in Australia is in deep grief, from the cities to the small country towns that many now call home

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

Event organisers, pilots and authorities have reported risky behaviour by amateur drone users.

Eight years after a moratorium on fracking gas was lifted in the Northern Territory, the tap was officially turned on at the massive Beetaloo Basin gas development.

A group of 28,000 irrigators has lost a $1.5-billion class action against the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA).

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

Australia Wide presents: The Deadwater Wreck A mysterious ship now thought to be buried in the depths of a murky lagoon in WA's South West, continues to baffle wreck hunters for more than a century. The Deadwater Wreck is one of WA's longest-running maritime mysteries, stretching back to the earliest decades of British colonial rule. The case rests on colonial eyewitnesses, curious artefacts and vivid folklore with treasure and even murder. Bunbury reporter Jon Daly has got his feet wet as part of this investigation to try to find the facts in the myths and stories of the Deadwater Wreck.

Community groups in Townsville warn more people are living in cars and tents, and have launched a petition for an emergency shelter to be built.

The deadly strain of bird flu is suspected to have infected a second mammal in Australia.

Tasmania's George Town council has approved a proposal to build an AI data centre at the site of the former Gunns pulp mill at Long Reach.

Riverina Water diluting drinking supply in Wagga Wagga amid elevated PFAS levels.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

Lawyers for triple murderer Erin Patterson front Victoria's highest court in a bid to overturn her convictions.

Falling vaccinations rates and growing inoculation hesitancy are putting communities at risk, according to doctors working in the bush.

Housing project helps domestic violence victim-survivors enter rental market on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

A battle for survival looms for South Australia's pelicans as bird flu advances.

Middle-aged prospective home buyers are increasingly moving in with their parents in a bid to save for a house deposit.

The government will roll out a vaccine against the deadly H5N1 bird flu in priority for native species in captivity.

Regional Victorians are facing far longer wait times than Melburnians when they go to an emergency department, government hospital data shows.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The first mass mortality of Australian wildlife from the deadly H5 bird flu has been confirmed in greater crested terns found on an island off South Australia's south-east coast.

It's been more than 12 months since residents along the Queensland coast watched and waited as Tropical Cyclone Alfred travelled down the coastline. While the cyclone caused damage to southern parts of the state, it also brought some cool relief to one of the world's greatest wonders, the Great Barrier Reef.  Grace Whiteside went out to the southern tip of the reef.

Australia Wide presents: The Bunbury woodchip bombing 50 years ago, the city of Bunbury woke to a bang.  Two men had tried to blow up the city's port in protest of the woodchipping industry.  Five decades later, one of the bombers reflects on the incident which leaves a complicated legacy in Australia's conservation history.

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An Alice Springs court has heard the evidence against a man accused of murdering five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby on the outskirts of the Northern Territory town is so extensive the case had to be adjourned until December.

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Jacinta Allan will not take Labor to an election, marking the end of a premiership marred by scandals that date back to the era of her predecessor, Daniel Andrews, and a collapse in successive polls.

The federal government has signalled it won't be extending the fuel excise cut beyond the end of this week. The tax on fuel was halved for three months to help motorists with soaring costs as a result of the war in the Middle East. Support was extended through July, but at a smaller discount of about 16 cents per litre and it's due to end this weekend. Sharon Middleton runs trucking business Whiteline Transport.  She says the increased cost of fuel will eventually be passed on to consumers.

The federal government has hailed the nationwide AusAlert system test a success despite reports of many people not receiving the alert.

South Australia has recorded seven new suspected cases of H5 bird flu, including five detections at the same site over two days. This brings Australia's total number of H5 birdflu cases to 20, across South Australia, Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland.  Reporter Josh Brine has been at the fishing town of Southend on SA's Limestone Coast.

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Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

An interim review into the NT child protection department's handling of the circumstances of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby prior to her death has been tabled in the NT parliament.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

Telstra's network outage this week caused disruptions across the country - to public transport, payment systems and those trying to call emergency services. Those living in remote and regional areas are heavily reliant on connectivity - so what can be done to future proof our national networks?

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

In an unprecedented move, Australia's consumer watchdog has exercised new powers to block the opening of a Coles supermarket in Kalgoorlie, on the grounds it could knock out smaller competitors in the surrounding region.

Private health group Ramsay given special access to public hospital emergency patients.

The expansion of tele-oncology units in regional Australia is allowing rural cancer patients to access treatments in smaller local hospitals.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Tassie prepares as H5N1 bird flu case confirmed in SA and another suspected in WA.

A spectacled porpoise, normally found in Antarctic waters, has washed up on the same coast where two dead migratory birds were found that were confirmed as infected with H5N1 bird flu.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

"It's all too hard": Fuel shock pushes regional businesses to the brink

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

A New South Wales man who believes Ivan Milat picked him up while hitchhiking as a teenager in the mid-1970s has told an inquiry that a speeding ticket saved his life.

The 50th anniversary of the Finke Desert Race has continued in the Central Australian outback, despite the death of a competitor on Sunday.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Queensland crackdown cuts illicit tobacco and vape shops, but black market adapts quickly

South Australian farmers are rushing to purchase CCTV cameras to protect their diesel supplies amid increasing concern about fuel theft since the war in the Middle East broke out

Patients and advocates are calling on the state government to fix a raft of issues they say are plaguing the Queensland's patient travel subsidy scheme.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The Commonwealth is suing the manufacturer of a firefighting foam containing PFAS that contaminated 28 Defence Force bases.

Western Australia could be the third state in the nation to manufacture guided weapons domestically under plans for a defence manufacturing hub.

More than half a century of coal-fired history has come crashing down in the NSW Hunter Valley.

Residents and service providers in Yuendumu say the Northern Territory government has not provided enough support to combat the territory's diphtheria outbreak.

There have now been more than 220 cases of diphtheria reported so far this year across Australia, primarily in the Northern Territory but also in Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland. The Government has announced a $7.2 million vaccine blitz - but will it do enough to protect First Nations communities?

The coastline we have built our lives around is disappearing before our eyes. Coastal erosion is not a new issue, but our changing climate means there have been drastic changes to the coastline in recent decades. This weekend beachgoers on the south-east Queensland coast are being warned to be careful. The weather bureau is forecasting waves of up to four metres to batter the coastline and cause hazardous conditions and the big swell could cause further erosion at already-exposed beaches.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Former Northern Territory child protection workers have spoken out about the NT's proposed legislative changes, following the death of Kumanjayi Little Baby.

A formal apology has been given in Tasmanian parliament for the past practice of taking human specimens from autopsies without the knowledge or consent of family members.