A parliamentary committee has launched an inquiry into the rural impacts of changes aimed at strengthening Medicare access and funding. Experts offer mixed reviews.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — 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 new ...

Australia is investing billions of dollars less in healthcare for people living in rural areas than for those living in cities. Moreover, the spending gap is growing, thus contributing to worsening ...

Since the 1980s, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has sent emissaries to some of the most remote places on earth — including these places in the outback. MELBOURNE (JTA) — Ruth Hannah has lived in the ...

SYDNEY, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Authorities on Saturday urged thousands of people in Australia's Queensland state to evacuate as bushfires that have destroyed at least 30 homes continued to threaten rural ...

WHITE PINE, Tenn. — From White Pine to a small town in rural Australia, Jackie Fowler is serving up Southern comfort food with a smile. "I'm from White Pine, my husband and I both grew up there," ...