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Every weekday, catch up with Sinéad Mangan as she explores news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

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    Heartbroken father wants Senate inquiry into doctor suicides

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2025 30:00


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

    Survival at stake for vulnerable communities, says NT Land Councils

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2025 29:59


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

    Massacre commemoration calls for Governor Stirling name changes

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2025 29:59


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

    Churches open their doors to Cobar community after mining deaths

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2025 29:59


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

    Marking 40 years since the historic handback of Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2025 29:59


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

    Cape York land returned to owners 255 years after Captain James Cook arrived

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2025 29:59


    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.

    Backlash over BOM's 'confusing' new website

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2025 29:59


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

    Buyer found for REX but councils unlikely to recoup money owed

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2025 29:59


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

    Albanese signs US $8.5 billion rare earths deal with Trump

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2025 29:59


    Critical minerals are becoming a central part of our everyday lives, advancing technology in industries from health care to energy to defence.

    To burn or not to burn?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2025 29:59


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

    One year on outback NSW communities reflect on power outage

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2025 29:59


    In October 2024, thousands of households and businesses in far west NSW were hit by a catastrophic power outage that lasted for weeks, and the fallout continues.

    Replica of destroyed Juukan Gorge being built after Rio Tinto blast

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2025 29:59


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

    Regional fuel prices in the spotlight

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2025 30:00


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

    Finding a solution to youth crime

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2025 29:59


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

    Two groups launch Federal Court appeals against Woodside gas extension

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2025 29:59


    The Australian Conservation Foundation and Friends of Australian Rock Art are appealing in the Federal Court to overturn the extension of Woodside's North West Shelf gas project.

    Wild weather causes two deaths in Tasmania

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2025 30:00


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

    12-year-old drummer makes rock band debut with The Living End

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2025 30:10


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

    Swiss mining giant gets $600m bailout for Queensland refinery and smelter

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2025 30:00


    Australian taxpayers will fund a multi-million dollar rescue package for mining giant Glencore to keep copper processing facilities operating in Queensland until the end of 2028. 

    Rio Tinto greenlights major iron ore expansion

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2025 29:59


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

    Older Territorians say they feel unsafe after residents targeted with machete

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 29:59


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

    Owner switches off solar farm powering area twice the size of Tasmania

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2025 29:59


    The Normanton Solar Farm in the Gulf of Carpentaria can power an area almost twice the size of Tasmania. Owner and operator Doug Scouller has turned off the farm after eight years, citing soured contract negotiations with Ergon Energy.

    Prime Minister 'concerned' by reports of Chinese ban on BHP iron ore imports

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2025 30:09


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

    Trump says US will impose 100pc tariff on movies made outside the country

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2025 30:10


    US President Donald Trump announces he will impose a 100% tariff on movies made outside of the US, jeopardising films shot in regional Australia. 

    Optus investigates more failed triple-0 calls in NSW outage

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 29:59


    Optus is investigating a network outage that led to nine failed triple-0 calls near Wollongong on the NSW south coast. 

    A month on, doubts mount about police search for fugitive Freeman

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2025 29:59


    A former homicide detective says the search for alleged Porepunkah gunman Dezi Freeman could become unsustainable if he is not found soon.

    Hundreds of new dust-related lung disease cases recorded in Queensland

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 29:59


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

    Algal bloom devastation laid bare in inquiry

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2025 29:59


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

    Capping holiday rentals yields mixed results in Byron Bay

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2025 29:59


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

    Should Australia have an independent triple-0 service?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 29:59


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

    The Aussie rules culture of “going hard” has a dark side that can be harmful

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2025 30:00


    In regional Victoria, players and family members say the Aussie rules culture of going hard has a dark side that can be harmful.

    Communities in northern Australia make plans to make life bearable for a warming planet

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 29:59


    While Australia sets new emission targets, communities in northern Australia make their own plans to make life more bearable for a warming planet 

    Children 'poisoned' by high lead levels as state government agency is accused of cover-up

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2025 29:59


    The NSW government is being accused of a cover-up following revelations a key government body sat on a report into lead dust that was "poisoning" children for nearly four years and tried to keep its release quiet.

    Mapping the landscape for renewables

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2025 30:00


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

    First climate risk assessment finds 1.5m Australians at risk from sea level rise by 2050

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2025 29:59


    Australia's first national climate risk assessment has warned one and a half million Australians could be impacted by rising sea levels by 2050 unless climate change can be limited.

    Australia's largest gas project given final approval to operate until 2070

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2025 29:59


    The approval is subject to almost 50 strict conditions, including reducing certain gas emissions by 2030 and reaching net zero emissions by 2050.

    Mount Isa mayor welcomes migrants amid worker shortage

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2025 29:59


    Fishers left reeling by Exmouth Gulf Marine Park announcement

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2025 29:59


    Fishers have criticised the state government's pledge to turn 30 per cent of WA's Exmouth Gulf into no-catch sanctuary zones. 

    Senate inquiry into algal blooms begins

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2025 29:59


    A federal Senate inquiry into South Australia's rolling algal bloom crisis has started to hear from the public to detail the full impact of the environmental catastrophe.

    Regional towns at centre of mushroom murder keen to move on

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2025 29:59


    The regional towns at the heart of the mushroom murder trial were inundated with a massive media contingent; now those communities want to move on.    

    WA government announces long-promised Exmouth Gulf Marine Park

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2025 29:59


    The WA government says it will establish a marine park to protect the Exmouth Gulf — a globally significant biodiversity site adjacent to the Ningaloo Reef.

    Uncertainty for SA communities after first varroa mite detection

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2025 30:00


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

    Beachside residents at odds about how to protect homes from coastal erosion

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2025 29:59


    People living right on the beach on the central coast of New South Wales say they are sitting ducks as coastal erosion shrinks the beach frontage protecting their homes.  

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