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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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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. 

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 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.

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.