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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 is calling out for migrant workers despite recent anti-immigration marches across the country.

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

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.

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.    

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.

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

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.  

A citizen science project is helping track the extent of the devastation created by the toxic algal bloom sitting off the South Australia's coast.

A huge Australian gas facility has released vast amounts of climate-polluting methane in a major leak which owners and government agencies have kept secret from the public for years. 

A leading extremism expert says increasing inequality is leading to the growth of sovereign citizen and other fringe groups spreading across rural and regional Australia.

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

Australia Wide presented from the AFAC Australian Disaster Resilience Conference 2025

Two police officers are confirmed dead and another is injured at a shooting at a rural property in the alpine region of Victoria

The only surviving guest of Erin Patterson's deadly mushroom lunch says he has forgiven the convicted triple-murderer and is "no longer her victim".

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

People living with disability in regional South Australia say it is hard to navigate new career paths as they do not have enough employment opportunities in their towns. 

A lack of supervisors and overlapping regulatory bodies is making it challenging for internationally trained doctors to become GPs.

A Productivity Roundtable is underway in Canberra to see what can be done about it. One of the suggestions is to put a rocket under growth in regional cities. 

Community forums are being held along South Australia's coastline, where toxic algal bloom continues to wreak havoc for marine life, and those who earn a living off the ocean.

World War Two veterans have gathered in Townsville to commemorate 80 years since Victory in the Pacific and the end of World War II. Almost one million Australians served in the conflict, and more than 39,000 died.

The Commonwealth has approved the continuation of salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour, bringing to an end a reconsideration request by environmental groups.

Demolition of a popular lookout in Lancelin has begun due to the risk of it crumbling into the ocean.

Regional businesses have been left frustrated and angry over the mysterious disappearance of their accounts across platforms owned by tech-giant Meta. 

Holding placards and banners in the red dirt and dry scrub along the road to Pine Gap, around 100 Alice Springs residents have called for the facility's closure and the return of land to traditional owners.

In 1953, in the APY lands of South Australia, two atomic weapons were exploded in the desert at a place called Emu Field. A young boy named Yami Lester remembers the ground shaking and a black mist coming over his family's camp. Yami passed away in 2017, but his daughter Karina Lester continues to speak up nationally and internationally about the impacts of nuclear testing in Australia.

The co-chair of the South Australia's peak domestic violence support body says more resources are needed to reach vulnerable people in regional areas. 

Melanie and David Moor are fighting a legal battle to keep their home after they mistakenly built their house on the wrong block.

Amazon partners with NBN Co to take on Starlink, bringing new high speed internet to Australia. Experts say the deal promises better internet services and more choice for people living in regional Australia.