The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

SYDNEY: Six people including two police officers were killed in a gunfight at a remote property in Australia's Queensland state, authorities said on Tuesday, after police visited the place to investigate reports of a missing person.

One of the shooters, Nathaniel Train, was a former principal at Walgett Community College Primary School north-west of Sydney.

Hundreds of underground workers are evacuated from a north-west Queensland zinc mine as authorities battle a 4km-long grassfire that has been raging for three days.

Eleven directors face allegations from ASIC of breaches of their duties of section 180 of the Corporations Act.

A report into forensic DNA testing in Queensland finds serious failures at a state-run lab, including "mismanagement" and "dishonesty by senior managers".

Two brothers and a woman who allegedly shot dead two Queensland police and their neighbour have been linked to posts on conspiracy theory websites and forums.

On Monday night, two police officers, Constable Rachel McCrow, 29, and Constable Matthew Arnold, 26, were shot and killed, and two other officers were injured, after being ambushed by offenders at a remote property in Wieambilla, in Queensland’s Western Downs. A civilian was also shot and killed. Specialist police then…

Six people were killed on Monday night, including two uniformed police officers allegedly ambushed on a remote property

Six people including two Queensland police officers and a member of the public were shot dead during a siege in Queensland's Wieambilla.