Australia Wide
The sound of regional Australia. Daily news from the ABC's unmatched network of regional reporters hosted by Sinéad Mangan.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 144
- Years Active
- 2025
Mirboo North's community 'superannuation' fund rebuilds town after fatal storm
When a ferocious storm tore through Mirboo North in Gippsland, residents did not wait for government help to rebuild, they helped themselves.
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Fri 16 May 2025
Australia's gambling problem rooted in the NT
The Northern Territory has become a haven for online gambling companies, 36 in total, all of which base themselves in the territory for its low fees and taxes.
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Thu 15 May 2025
Queensland inquiry hears of far-reaching effects of elder abuse
Queensland elder abuse inquiry hears the far-reaching implications of "humbugging" in regional and remote communities
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Wed 14 May 2025
EPA opens Woodside's revised plan for Browse gasfield for public comment
WA's environmental watchdog has taken the unusual step of reopening public consultation to Woodside's $30 billion Browse joint venture project after the company modified its proposal.
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Tue 13 May 2025
Lord Howe Island's palms challenge Darwin's evolutionary theory
Scientists are testing Charles Darwin's theory on species diversity by analysing Kentia palm varieties that have grown side by side for 1 million years.
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Mon 12 May 2025
Shipping costs hinder grain relief for drought-affected SA farmers while shearers struggle for work
Prolonged drought conditions and increasing production costs are compelling farmers to reduce their flocks, leaving shearers struggling to find work.
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Fri 09 May 2025
Land for long-awaited housing project becomes homeless campground
The site of a regional social housing project promised seven years ago has become a squat for the homeless in Bendigo, Victoria.
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Thu 08 May 2025
Closure of only private maternity ward sees women leave NT for childbirth
Women across the Northern Territory say they've been "robbed of choice" ahead of the NT's only private maternity ward closing.
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Wed 07 May 2025
Gold Coast film industry on edge in wake of Trump 100 per cent tariff announcement
Trump's threat of 100 per cent tariffs on all movies produced outside the US could have major ramifications for numbers of films produced in regional Australia - particularly on the Gold Coast.
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Tue 06 May 2025
What does a weakened Coalition mean for regional Australia?
Today on the show we take a look at what the election result means for regional Australia and how it will be represented in a drastically different federal parliament.
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Mon 05 May 2025
The regional-urban health gap in Australia is wide; but the issue has gone missing this election
The gap between the city and the country, when it comes to health outcomes for residents and their ability to access healthcare services, is wide. Despite this, regional health has not featured as a …
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Fri 02 May 2025
Remote polls set to see more votes than last election
A third of Australians on the electoral roll have already voted. At nearly 5 million Australians, that's a record.
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Thu 01 May 2025
Braddon: the marginal Tassie seat where the vote shifts with its economic fortunes
Life in the electorate seat of Braddon, covering Tasmania's north-west and west coast, plus the dairy farming King Island, can be tough.
Unemployment is high. The population of once thriving mining t…
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Wed 30 Apr 2025
Housing, climate and high cost of living top of mind in ultra-marginal Gilmore
The result in Gilmore was the closest in the country at the 2022 federal election, with Labor's Fiona Phillips holding onto the seat by just 373 votes.
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Tue 29 Apr 2025
Lingiari: The vast NT seat where voters feel forgotten
The seat of Lingiari is vast and takes in 99 per cent of the Northern Territory, excluding Darwin. For decades its been a safe Labor seat, but at the last election the gap narrowed and now the coalit…
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Mon 28 Apr 2025
Hospital bed delay and a special grief camp
A $7 billion costing blowout means that Queensland hospital beds will be delayed, just one of many problems facing the health sector in regional Australia.
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Thu 24 Apr 2025
Wind power to prove troublesome for Wannon electoral candidates
In the seat of Wannon, voters are focused on offshore wind farms, rundown roads and a lack of childcare places
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Wed 23 Apr 2025
Tough race ahead in brand-new seat of Bullwinkel
What matters to voters in Australia's newest electorate?
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Tue 22 Apr 2025
A plea for tourists to return and the push for more housing cooperatives
Outback tourism operators say they're seeing a slow start to the season because travellers are staying away, worried about flooding.
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Thu 17 Apr 2025
Regional housing squeeze and the personality of fairy-wrens
Not only is the Superb fairy-wren beautiful to look out, science has found that the chatter of these beautiful little birds reveal their personalities.
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Wed 16 Apr 2025
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