regional Australia

Wednesday, February 19

Incentives needed to encourage lawyers to "go bush"

Australia has a crisis in legal representation outside the major cities, argues legal commentator Morry Bailes.

Last chance to vote for your favourite regional SA story

Today is the last day to vote for your favourite story about regional South Australia.

Young people in regional South Australia are globally connected, with clear expectations about what they want from community leaders. File image

Pride, independence, uncertainty: how young regional South Australians feel about their lives

Young people in regional South Australia care deeply about their communities and have ideas that deserve to be heeded by policy-makers, writes Commissioner for Children and Young People Helen Connolly.

Minister "should intervene" in airline's SA 'Rexit'

The Marshall Government could step in to prevent Rex Airlines slashing services in South Australia, after the regional carrier yesterday confirmed it would abandon 10 flights a week between Adelaide and Mount Gambier, effective immediately.

Govt scrambles for answers after defiant Rex cuts SA flights

The Marshall Government is seeking an urgent explanation from Rex Airlines, the provider of the state’s only air service between Adelaide and Mount Gambier, after its extraordinary move to scale back flights after “unfair” complaints about the service.

Govts should pick towns, not industries, as winners

Old-fashioned industry policy should be ditched in favour of a new approach designed to rejuvenate regional towns, write Richard Holden and Rosalind Dixon.