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

Australian authorities urged people in dozens of rural communities to leave home "immediately" Thursday to escape an out-of-control bushfire tearing through a national park. About 600 firefighters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Both Australia and the U.S. operate under federal systems of government but differently distribute the responsibility for ...