Gabrielle Chan is an author and journalist, and was previously Guardian Australia's rural and regional editor
July 2024
The rural network
Stop the clocks: the cows aren’t confused by daylight saving, but I am
Gabrielle Chan
Amber Haigh said she was tied up by Robert Geeves and questioned about other relationships during sex, murder trial told
One of last people to see Amber Haigh may have estimated date of sighting from news report, court hears
The rural network, Victoria
Regional Australians are five times more likely to die in road accidents – so what are we doing about it?
Gabrielle Chan
Amber Haigh was placed in ‘cargo’ section of car to meet ambulance, court hears
The rural network, Victoria
Extravagant maker of schemes: unpicking Barnaby Joyce’s anti-renewables campaign
Gabrielle Chan
June 2024
The rural network, Victoria
Is ‘urban narcissism’ behind rural Australia’s doctor drought?
Gabrielle Chan
The rural network, Victoria
If regional communities don’t want a windfarm, why would they accept a nuclear power station?
Gabrielle Chan
May 2024
The rural network, Victoria
Voter views on animal welfare are changing – and taking the live sheep export trade with them
Gabrielle Chan
The rural network, Victoria
In rural Australia, everyone knows your business – so it’s harder for victims of violence to get help
Gabrielle Chan
April 2024
The rural network, Victoria
If Australia has reached ‘peak milk’, what does that mean for our food security?
Gabrielle Chan
Consumers assume Australia has milk production covered – but the national dairy herd is declining and imports are at record highs
Full Story
How ‘childcare deserts’ are holding Australia back – Full Story podcast
Guardian Australia columnist Gabrielle Chan tells Nour Haydar about the ongoing challenges of parenting in regional Australia and why more towns need access to childcare services
The rural network, Victoria
Regional Australia needs health workers and teachers – but it has to have childcare first
Gabrielle Chan
Almost half the population live in a ‘childcare desert’ while employers are crying out for workers – it’s time to connect the dots
March 2024
The rural network, Victoria
Australian farmland prices have doubled in the past decade. Is it time to put the ‘poor farmer’ narrative to bed?
Gabrielle Chan
The rural network, Victoria
Behind the glossy International Women’s Day pictures, women are still excluded in agriculture
Gabrielle Chan
February 2024
The rural network, Victoria
The chicken came first: how Australia’s most popular protein can explain the supermarket duopoly
Gabrielle Chan
The rural network, Victoria
Rural Australia believes in self-sufficiency, so let’s set the terms of the renewable energy boom
Gabrielle Chan
October 2023
Australia news live
No plan for nuclear waste despite Aukus submarine deal, Senate hears – as it happened
Australia is planning to obtain nuclear-powered submarines, but has nowhere to dispose of radioactive waste
The rural network
Murray Watt hits back at National Farmers Federation campaign that calls Labor ‘ignorant to plight of farmers’
Agriculture minister pushed back after the NFF launched a national campaign arguing that ‘food and fibre production is not a central priority’ of the Albanese government
The rural network
The ‘latte line’ dividing metropolitan and regional Australia has disappeared, but have the lobby groups kept pace?
Gabrielle Chan
The bush is changing, says National Farmers Federation outgoing president Fiona Simson, but the battle lines remain the same
