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

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

In an unprecedented move, Australia's consumer watchdog has exercised new powers to block the opening of a Coles supermarket in Kalgoorlie, on the grounds it could knock out smaller competitors in the surrounding region.

Private health group Ramsay given special access to public hospital emergency patients.

The expansion of tele-oncology units in regional Australia is allowing rural cancer patients to access treatments in smaller local hospitals. 

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

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

Tassie prepares as H5N1 bird flu case confirmed in SA and another suspected in WA.

A spectacled porpoise, normally found in Antarctic waters, has washed up on the same coast where two dead migratory birds were found that were confirmed as infected with H5N1 bird flu.