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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.

Australia is blessed with majestic coastlines and most Australians live near the coast, but in a number of these communities that coastline is changing. Beaches around Australia are at risk of disappearing with climate change resulting in severe weather systems that lash up and down the coastline and erode the landscape. From Newcastle in New South Wales, to Wyomi on the Limestone Coast in South Australia, to Inverloch in Victoria - are all trying different ways to hold back the power of the ocean. So what can be done about it? And who is responsible for fixing a growing problem. And importantly who is responsible for footing the bill? 

As we head into summer, Australia Wide looks at an ecological disaster that decimated communities and industry in South Australia. 

Today on Australia Wide the regional response to the shooting at Bondi Beach. 

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.

Youth mental health service concerned social media ban will further isolate country kids

Teenagers in remote and rural communities are worried social media ban will make them even more isolated. 

Our birth certificate is our first form of identification. But there are some Australians like 88 year old Maisie Harkin that still to this day never had a birth certificate. 

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.

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.

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

Regional apprentices are out of pocket for frequent travel and accommodation costs to attend city-based TAFE studies.

The Top End of Australia mops up the damage from Tropical Cyclone Fina.

Former mayor backs bill to protect drivers using medicinal cannabis.

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.

Shock in a sawmilling town in the Gippsland regional of Victoria as mass redundancies announced just weeks before Christmas. 

It's been coined the world's most ambitious solar project.  A plan to deliver electricity from the Northern Territory to Singapore via thousands of kilometres of underwater transmission line. Backed by one of Australia's richest men, Suncable has made a vital step towards becoming reality with a multi-million dollar agreement with traditional owners signed outside of Darwin.    

Regional councils say their budgets are facing financial strain as failing airlines leave outstanding debts.

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 Australian Road Safety Foundation chair Russell White says roadside drug testing results are only scratching the surface of the numbers of people driving under the influence of drugs on country roads. 

Today on Australia Wide the ongoing controversy over the use of bill paying services by retailers for people on welfare. 

In regional Australia, where baby boomers are being told to downsize to free up homes, country communities are having to become developers to build appropriate-sized housing.

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.

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.

There are calls for a Senate inquiry into the suicide deaths of Australian doctors amid allegations of untenable rosters and payback for whistleblowers.

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.

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

A native title claim in the region where Captain James Cook made landfall after his ship crashed into the Great Barrier Reef in 1770 is among one of three to finally be settled by the Federal Court this week.

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