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Gabrielle Chan

Gabrielle Chan is an author and journalist, and was previously Guardian Australia's rural and regional editor

January 2025

  • A fire truck driving down a dusty unpaved road with dry grass on either side and a few tress in the background

    The rural network
    Our farm caught fire on New Year’s Day, and helpers poured out of the scrub. It’s given me fresh hope for 2025

    Gabrielle Chan
    The global politics of division rage on but, when a crisis hit, neighbours and strangers alike converged on our burning paddocks to work in unison

December 2024

  • Michael Dorman and Robert Taylor in front of a helicopter

    The rural network, Victoria
    Territory – Australia’s answer to Yellowstone – runs counter to our positive self-image. Is that why farmers hate it?

    Gabrielle Chan
    The patriarch in the Netflix drama has a pistol in a holster on his hip where Australians would carry a pocketknife … but there’s still truth in this gritty take on rural life
  • A canola field from the air

    The rural network, Victoria
    Farming has always been gambling with dirt – but the odds are getting longer

    Gabrielle Chan
    Rainfall patterns are changing, crops are ripening earlier and the normal rhythms of farming have fallen off – exactly as climate scientists warned
  • Rolling hills in the NSW country town of Gloucester

    The rural network, Victoria
    Country people believe they’re different to city people but on key issues our views align

    Gabrielle Chan
    Researchers at ANU found no real difference between the climate opinions of regional and urban Australians. Remember that as we head into the next federal election, with renewable energy on the frontline

November 2024

  • IGA

    The rural network
    Shopping around for the best deal on groceries is good advice for most Australians – except if you live in the bush

    Gabrielle Chan
  • Indi MP Helen Haines with the former member Cathy McGowan and their orange army of supporters after her first speech in parliament in 2019

    The rural network, Victoria
    I’m watching the US election but my mind’s on Wagga Wagga

    Gabrielle Chan

October 2024

  • The courthouse in Broken Hill, western NSW

    The rural network, Victoria
    Equal access to justice is a foundational principle of Australia’s legal system – but it’s not the reality in country towns

    Gabrielle Chan
  • File photo of the country town of Bright, Victoria, Australia

    The rural network, Victoria
    Good coffee, breweries and dog washes: what makes a regional Australian town attractive to treechangers?

    Gabrielle Chan

September 2024

  • Nationals leader David Littleproud speaks at a farmer’s rally in Canberra in September 2024

    The rural network, Victoria
    Victorian Farmers Federation splits from national body over Keep the Sheep rally

    VFF chair Emma Germano says the National Farmers’ Federation is conducting ‘policy by press release’ and no longer represents Victorian farmers
  • Farming and political leaders line up at a rally this month outside Parliament House

    The rural network, Victoria
    With agriculture at a sharp fork in the road, Australia needs savvy farm leaders

    Gabrielle Chan
    There’s a war brewing between those who want to plan for future challenges and those who want to turn back the tide
  • National Farmers' Federation president, David Jochinke, and members of other peak agricultural bodies at Parliament House on 15 May

    The rural network, Victoria
    Tuesday’s rally for Australian farmers lists seven priorities – but the biggest two are nowhere to be seen

    Gabrielle Chan
    The last time the National Farmers’ Federation marched on Canberra politicians were carefully controlled. This time the agenda looks more useful for politicians than farmers

August 2024

  • The courthouse in Wagga Wagga

    The rural network, Victoria
    The struggle to tell rural Australian stories has never been harder – or more essential

    Gabrielle Chan
    Local media have been stretched ever thinner as the money to train and staff publications disappears. Now many towns have no reliable news source
  • (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

    Full Story
    The debate over daylight saving – Full Story podcast

    Tamsin Rose speaks to rural and regional editor Calla Wahlquist and columnist Gabrielle Chan about why changing the time continues to be a divisive issue
  • A Rex Airlines plane at Sydney airport

    The rural network, Victoria
    Australia’s airline duopoly won’t keep planes in regional skies

    Gabrielle Chan
    Anti-competitive behaviour has crept into so many of our essential services, including country airports, but there’s still plenty of flying to be done. Sic ’em, Rex

July 2024

  • early morning cattle<br>Cattle in the yard at sunrise with sun coming through a tree behind them

    The rural network, Victoria
    Stop the clocks: the cows aren’t confused by daylight saving, but I am

    Gabrielle Chan
  • Amber Haigh and Robert Geeves with their son. Geeves and his wife, Anne Geeves, are on trial for Haigh’s alleged murder

    Amber Haigh said she was tied up by Robert Geeves and questioned about other relationships during sex, murder trial told

  • Amber Haigh and her baby and Robert Geeves

    One of last people to see Amber Haigh may have estimated date of sighting from news report, court hears

  • A roadside memorial for a person who was hit by traffic in Alice Springs

    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
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