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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 WreckA 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 bombing50 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.