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The rural network

  • NSW EPA launches investigation into Cadia goldmine after blood tests show metal contamination

    Newcrest Cadia Holdings has until Tuesday to respond to the draft pollution notice

  • Regional Australians five times more likely to die in car accidents: report

  • Gabrielle Chan

    To offset or inset emissions? Australian farmers are ‘flying blind in a low-carbon world’

    Gabrielle Chan

  • AI-powered hives latest weapon in fight to protect Australian bees from varroa mite

  • Inquiry into Menindee ‘catastrophic fish deaths’ to consider ways to prevent future ecological disasters

  • Herd the news? Australian alpaca numbers near 400,000 after baby boom

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Features

  • Extreme weather and rising premiums make parts of regional Australia ‘uninsurable’

    Insurance costs for some properties have tripled despite never having been directly affected by natural disaster

  • NSW announces $2m to research regional motor neurone disease hotspot

  • ‘I’m Armidaleian’: Ezidi refugees put down new roots in New England

    • Castle in the cane fields: exploring Queensland’s most unusual tourist destination

    • Crocodile catch: conservationists warn against proposed Queensland cull

    • The confidence to call yourself an artist: why residency programs are so important in regional Australia

    • Mining dust and bird poo: how clean is the rainwater Australians drink?

    • Conservationists rubbish plan to build a windfarm near protected north Queensland rainforests

    • ‘We can’t afford to lose’: the campaign for a yes vote in north Queensland

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The rural network, Victoria

  • School’s out: what happens when classrooms close in rural Australia?

    Elmhurst primary school is the 10th to close in regional Victoria in the past five years

  • Australia’s ageing NBN satellites leave rural internet users struggling to connect

    Mark Gregory
    A strategic investment in OneWeb by the federal government could ensure equitable access to fast, reliable rural and remote broadband

    • Lack of affordable housing is harming regional Australia, Anglicare chief says

    • Putting country first: private land-sharing agreement in Yambulla reckons with colonisation

    • The only Australian with a role in King Charles’ coronation is from Wangaratta – where most people don’t know him

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Opinion

  • Gabrielle Chan

    This is not Utopia: how will the inland rail project stand up to real-life scrutiny?

    Gabrielle Chan
  • Gabrielle Chan

    By choosing to share a stage with One Nation, Barnaby Joyce invited division into his community

    Gabrielle Chan
    • Calla Wahlquist

      You have to believe in local journalism to do it well – but rural community papers are drying up

      Calla Wahlquist
    • Gabrielle Chan

      Rural seats will be crucial to the NSW election outcome, so why aren’t we hearing about them?

      Gabrielle Chan

    • I’ve watched the Murray-Darling for 30 years and I’ve never seen carp numbers like this

      Adam Kerezsy
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Multimedia

  • Officials challenged to drink town water where millions of fish died in Australian river – video

     

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  • Menindee reacts to latest fish kills: 'An Australian disaster like bushfire and floods' – video

     

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  • Drone footage shows millions of dead fish in river near Menindee - video

     

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