Gabrielle Chan

Living rurally raises the risk of intimate partner violence for women. The main risk factors are the same as in the city, but there are issues specific to the bush that have to be addressed

Labor says it will phase out the practice by 2028 – 10 years after it first announced the policy. But farm advocates say the timeline is ‘radical’

The national road toll is trending up despite decades of road safety campaigns. We need better data – but state governments are holding back

The difference in support for daylight saving in rural areas versus the cities is night and day. And as a country dweller, I like getting up with the sun

Local media have been stretched ever thinner as the money to train and staff publications disappears. Now many towns have no reliable news source

Navigating the system is confusing at the best of times. But in regional Australia, distance is turning some towns into justice deserts

Researchers at ANU found no real difference between the climate opinions of regional and urban Australians. Remember that as we head into the next federal election, with renewable energy on the frontline

Rainfall patterns are changing, crops are ripening earlier and the normal rhythms of farming have fallen off – exactly as climate scientists warned

The global politics of division rage on but, when a crisis hit, neighbours and strangers alike converged on our burning paddocks to work in unison

Rural Australia holds the balance of power – if it wants to exercise it – in pretty much every parliament