The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

Labor is tightening visa rules for international students and backpackers, while increasing efforts to remove overstayers as it seeks greater control over migration.

Australia's immigration policy involves a complex system of visas designed to fill labour shortages, reunite families, sustain our higher education sector and provide refuge. Australia Wide takes a look at how the debate plays out in regional and rural Australia.  

Mixed reactions on Tasmania's west coast to a developer's plans to build a massive 280 turbine wind farm that could potentially feed energy hungry data centres. 

Hundreds of workers at Whyalla steel works in South Australia will lose their jobs as a result of a decision to permanently shut its blast furnace. 

The sound of regional Australia. News and analysis from the ABC's network of regional reporters.

A lack of emergency care training is putting nurses in vulnerable positions during rural and remote placements, according to a national report. 

Warwick on Qld’s southern Downs is defying every market prediction - a place where property prices have gone up while everywhere else seems to be going down.

Regional Australia has been key to so much of Australia's cinematic success. Can Australia's film industry produce another outback classic like Crocodile Dundee?