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With a four-year waitlist for social housing, this Kimberley mother-of-three is calling for better support

2024-09-2725:00

A Kimberley mother of three young girls is now homeless after escaping domestic violence, and she's calling for more housing and support in the region.

School holidays look a little different for this 16-year-old grave keeper

2024-09-2625:10

A group who call themselves 'The Keepers of the Outback Graves' help to maintain bush graves and fill in gaps in south-west Queensland's history, and a 16-year-old boy spends his school holidays joining them.

Kimberley locals want to know how their local abattoir closed its doors, owing more than $103 million

2024-09-2525:10

An ABC investigation uncovered a dumping yard of cattle carcasses at a Kimberley abattoir. It has now closed its doors, owing more than $103 million, and locals want to know how it happened.

Concerns for black swan populations around Australia, if a new strain of avian influenza reaches our shores

2024-09-2425:10

Australian scientists are warning of mass mortality events in native birds, if a new strain of avian influenza reaches the country. The iconic black swan has been found to be particularly susceptible.

A glimmer of hope for regional communities, with young people signing up to volunteer and pursue their passions

2024-09-2325:10

Volunteers are the lifeblood of regional communities but over the past 20 years there has been a steep decline in volunteers. Now, there is a glimmer of hope that young people will join groups to pursue their passions.

Waiting for up to 30 years, 25 people to a home, families in regional communities plead for action

2024-09-2024:59

Joanne Fourmile has been waiting for housing for eight years, in the meantime she's raised children and been treated for breast cancer while sleeping on a mattress on the floor of her cousin's living room.

A small WA seaside town was forced to switch off gas, becoming a 'prototype' for the green energy transition

2024-09-1925:09

When a town in Australia's South West was forced to switch off gas, residents were given a choice: use bottled gas or electrify. Now, electricity is providing more energy for Esperance than ever before and most of it is coming from renewable sources.

Roebourne residents fear extreme summer will put elders' health at risk after record-breaking winter heat

2024-09-1825:10

Last month the town recorded its hottest ever winter day of 40.2C.

King Island Dairy shutdown looms for workers considering their futures on the Bass Strait island

2024-09-1724:59

King Island Dairy is the largest single employers on the Bass Strait island, but the factory and associated cheese brand is set to be closed next year.

Rural councils struggling to pay for GPs call for state and federal government help

2024-09-1625:09

After losing the region's only general practitioner earlier this year, the Shire of Gnowangerup will now have to spend $350,000 a year to ensure another GP can service its 1,200 residents.

Children in regional areas enduring months in pain while waiting for urgent dental care

2024-09-1325:00

Children in regional areas are waiting for months in pain and in some cases travelling thousands of kilometres to access urgent dental care as fewer private hospitals offer the procedures and public waitlists blow out.

Australian wildlife-smuggling trade laid bare in first detailed study tracking global animal sales

2024-09-1225:10

A new study reveals the scale of Australia wildlife being smuggled overseas, with dozens of species recorded for the first time. But government authorities insist its crackdown is working.

'Can't just hope for the best': Hundreds of parents make 'phone pledge' to keep kids off social media

2024-09-1125:09

United by fear of the harms of social media, and a shared nostalgia for a screen-free childhood, hundreds of parents in regional Victoria have shown interest in keeping smartphones out of their kids' hands for as long as they can.

Frustrated farmers head to Canberra to rally at Parliament House

2024-09-1025:10

While a proposed ban on live sheep exports sparked the rally, farmers have vented their anger over a range of decisions the federal government from water buy-backs in the Murray Darling Basin to biosecurity funding.

Victorian dairy community warns national food security at risk as foreign timber giants snap up farms

2024-09-0925:09

South West Victorian residents say a "corrosive" trend to sell fertile farmland to make way for foreign-owned wood plantations is ruining communities and threatening Australia's food security.

Cost of living in paradise anywhere between 30 and 50 per cent higher for goods

2024-09-0625:09

As the cost-of-living crisis bites hard, consider the additional costs associated with living on a remote island.

"It's really going to knock the island around." 120 year-old iconic dairy brand to end after being unable to find a buyer.

2024-09-0525:10

Dairy giant Saputo will shut its iconic King Island Dairy in the middle of next year and discontinue its more than 120-year-old brand, after being unable to find a buyer.

Regional publican pushes back against local council ban on pokies

2024-09-0425:09

A publican in north-east Victoria is questioning an understanding local councils have with businesses that results in poker machines effectively being banned.

How lithium-ion batteries are changing the nature of modern house fires

2024-09-0325:09

Lithium-ion batteries are increasingly sparking house fires and changing the dynamic of the blazes that firefighters face.

When you know those involved: The trauma of being a first responder in a small town

2024-09-0225:09

In regional and rural areas with small populations, there is a high chance the first person on the scene of a fatal crash could know the people or person involved. Now, there are calls for more mental health support for first responders dealing with road accident trauma.

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Fardane Jahangiri

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