WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A remote Australian town that will soon lose its only doctor is offering a salary of up to 680,000 Australian dollars ($428,000), plus free rent and a car, to attract a ...

Jeanette De Landgrafft lives on her family’s farm 40 miles from the “nearest anything” on the sparse southern edge of Western Australia. Yet she and thousands of other rural parents have developed a ...

A growing number of Australian medical students are choosing to train as rural generalists, after the practice was formally recognized as a specialty within the field of general practice last year.

Medicare’s November 2025 bulk-billing changes are starting to land in rural Australia, and the early stories don’t neatly match the government’s promise of cheaper general practitioner (GP) care. Some ...

Facebook’s decision to remove Australian news from its platform is the latest gambit in a running stoush with the federal government over its proposed news media bargaining law. For months, the tech ...

Flinders University's Dr. Vivian Isaac (senior lecturer in rural mental health) and Ph.D. student Dennis Asante led a team that has made key observations for improving access to mental health support ...

David Perkins receives infrastructure and program funding from NSW Health, NSW Government. Hazel Dalton receives infrastructure and program funding from NSW Health, NSW Government. Among the Bushfire ...

A New South Wales (NSW) parliamentary inquiry established in September 2020 after a succession of preventable deaths in rural and regional hospitals has heard of discussions by rural doctors of mass ...