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One of Australia's largest rail freight operators has teamed up with grain handler Viterra to urge the federal government to bring rail freight back to the Eyre Peninsula for next year's harvest.

Severe flooding is threatening fresh food supplies for people living in Australia's north, with rising floodwaters cutting key road and rail links over the weekend.

The teenager was climbing on a line close to a train bridge in the city of Gladstone in the Australian state of Queensland when the power pole exploded and sent him flying into the creek below

A central Queensland boy died at Gladstone after he came into contact with live electrical wires and fell.

Millions of taxpayer dollars were spent on a stretch of central Queensland rail line which could soon be too expensive to use.

The driver of a train that derailed in floodwaters outside Gympie during the February floods should have had almost an hour-and-a-half to stop, but he was never told.

Queensland's 10-year energy plan aims to move away from coal-fired power reliance by 2035, but huge amounts of coal will still be produced and exported, and applications for new and extended mines show no signs of slowing.

Copper and nickel miner Oz Minerals rebuffs an $8.3 billion takeover bid from BHP, while the Australian share market gains on the first trading day of the week.