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

Phil Haines thanks community and medical staff for rallying around his family following car attack on his wife MP Helen Haines.

The regional community of Wangaratta is struggling to understand a violent attack on its local federal MP Helen Haines.

What are the younger generations thinking ahead of the Victorian state election?

Australia Wide this week - The NSW government is procuring drone detection technology for jails across the state to combat the "emerging threat" of contraband smuggled in from the sky

The bosses of Qantas and Virgin Australia have faced a parliamentary inquiry into the state of regional air travel.

Tourism operators in Bundaberg and Hervey Bay say visitor numbers are lower compared to last year.

The Gold Coast's push for more housing faces growing climate risks, with urban planners warning rising seas and worsening flooding will force up premiums and push people out of some suburbs.

A wind-lashed Alice Springs is bracing for another storm even as residents have not yet finished clearing up from "the worst storm in 40 years" on Monday afternoon.

As the climate warms, and many urban environments become more densely developed and there is growing concern about how heat is impacting communities.

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

As the major parties continue to thrash out policy over gambling reform, new research suggests having a bet during the game is becoming less about winning money and more about fitting in with your mates - especially for young men.

The youngest of the infamous Snowtown serial killers has been seen walking out of an Adelaide pre-release centre.

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

After weeks of debate about Australia's migration intake for the coming years, the Opposition has finally revealed it's plan.

Australia's largest data centre proposed for a cattle feedlot just out of Dalby, 250 kilometres west of Brisbane in Queensland.

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

Two Fraser Coast family-owned businesses have been forced to make difficult decisions to keep their livelihoods afloat following a fourth interest rate hike and the removal of credit and debit card surcharges.

Business owners voice their worries about the potential negative impact of the recently announced changes to working holiday visas.

Planning decision to extend life of mega coal mine in Hunter Valley saves 1,500 jobs.

As companies continue their push to build AI data centres in Australian communities, an AI institute cautions that the touted jobs and economic benefits may not materialise if public authorities do not put binding conditions on proponents.

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.

Fuel prices rise again, hitting regional Australians harder due to the greater distances they must travel

Most of Australia's GPs were born overseas and, as political debate rages over immigration numbers, regional medical clinics rely on them to keep their doors open. But the process isn't easy.

Moree crime rates falling but residents say drone use is overreach

Babies are being born before arriving at hospital at double the rate in regional NSW areas since 2001.

A coronial inquest into the deaths of six children in the Hillcrest Primary School tragedy has started in Devonport in Tasmania's north-west.

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.

Labor is tightening visa rules for international students and backpackers, while increasing efforts to remove overstayers as it seeks greater control over migration.

Australia's immigration policy involves a complex system of visas designed to fill labour shortages, reunite families, sustain our higher education sector and provide refuge. Australia Wide takes a look at how the debate plays out in regional and rural Australia.

Mixed reactions on Tasmania's west coast to a developer's plans to build a massive 280 turbine wind farm that could potentially feed energy hungry data centres.

Hundreds of workers at Whyalla steel works in South Australia will lose their jobs as a result of a decision to permanently shut its blast furnace.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.