Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Australia is blessed with majestic coastlines and most Australians live near the coast, but in a number of these communities that coastline is changing. Beaches around Australia are at risk of disappearing with climate change resulting in severe weather systems that lash up and down the coastline and erode the landscape. From Newcastle in New South Wales, to Wyomi on the Limestone Coast in South Australia, to Inverloch in Victoria - are all trying different ways to hold back the power of the ocean. So what can be done about it? And who is responsible for fixing a growing problem. And importantly who is responsible for footing the bill? 

As we head into summer, Australia Wide looks at an ecological disaster that decimated communities and industry in South Australia. 

Today on Australia Wide the regional response to the shooting at Bondi Beach. 

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Youth mental health service concerned social media ban will further isolate country kids

Teenagers in remote and rural communities are worried social media ban will make them even more isolated. 

Our birth certificate is our first form of identification. But there are some Australians like 88 year old Maisie Harkin that still to this day never had a birth certificate.