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'Hectic' bushfires threaten rural towns in Australian heatwave

Bushfires threatened dozens of rural towns in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said as hot winds fanned "hectic" ...
Newsday

Australian police officer recalls 2022 ambush by extremists in rural area that left 2 officers dead

MELBOURNE, Australia — A police officer testified Tuesday he did not know where bullets were coming from as two colleagues were shot in an ambush by three Christian extremists on a rural Australian ...
The Conversation

Rural Australians are 13% less likely to survive cancer. Here’s what needs to change

Research Fellow, Equitable Cancer Outcomes across Rural and Remote Australia (ECORRA), Deakin University Anna Ugalde receives funding from the Medical Research Future Fund, Department of Health, ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

How roving rabbis help the few Jews of rural Australia celebrate Rosh Hashanah

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 ...