REGIONAL Australians found themselves as the butt of a nasty joke at weekend, with both the new Federal Government and the Opposition...

REGIONAL Australians angry over continued bank closures have a chance to have their voice heard in federal parliament. The Regional’s...

An “open letter to the treasurer” published by The Regional last month drew attention to the plight of the South Australian town of...

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FEDERAL TREASURER, DR JIM CHALMERS Dear Dr Chalmers, We need to talk about Peterborough. It’s a town in South...

NEWS and COMMENT A NUMBER of significant mistakes identified in Federal Government records set up to monitor banking service levels...

The definition of what makes a bank a bank has never been more important as NAB starts to quietly downgrade branches to cashless...

BANK CLOSURES in regional Australia will be an election issue for the first time in nearly two decades thanks to the findings of a...

ANALYSIS/OPINION If there is one certain outcome from the recently announced government inquiry into regional banking services it is that...

Are cashed-up and bankless towns just watching the money go round and round? CASTERTON, Grenfell, Home Hill, Nathalia and Toukley. Five...

BACKGROUND I have spent more than a year counting banks. It’s not an introduction to a story I could have foreseen myself writing 12...