Australia Wide

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