For hundreds of regional families across Australia, accessing critical neonatal care often involves travelling for hours or even relocating to a major city. Experts are calling for greater support for parents facing premature births in country towns, and greater education for paediatric staff.

Then, more than a third of the total population of Tuvalu has applied for a new climate change visa to live in Australia.

Also, its been a fraught fortnight for the regional town of Dalby with a prolonged telecommunications outage causing headaches for the town's population.

And a new report warns that Australia's research sector is facing increasingly sophisticated threats from foreign actors, including malicious insiders posing as research students.

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