The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

Canadian fossil hunters spend six months camping in outback Queensland each year, call it 'home'

Barb and Gary are a long way from their Nova Scotia roots, but over the past 14 years they have come to love the people and the country so much they now call it "home".

ABC News · Oct 2, 2022

How a gravestone clue about a flowering bush led to a family reunion in Almaden

With only a name and a puzzle about a grave marking "the spot near that white blossomed tree", Marion and Don Lawie's research connects a family to an outback Queensland town.

ABC News · Oct 1, 2022

Queensland strippers make disturbing allegations of wage theft, exploitation and sexual assault in clubs

Dancers at Brisbane strip clubs allege workplace failures, including wage theft, exploitative working conditions and sexual assaults as the state's law reform commission leaves strippers out of a review into sex work laws.

ABC News · Oct 1, 2022

Queensland Gemfields communities in limbo 10 months on from mining moratorium

The state government is yet to reveal its plan for small-scale mining, 10 months on from announcing a temporary ban. Queensland hand miners say their livelihoods and communities are at stake.

ABC News · Sep 30, 2022

Paralympians welcome Qld Premier's title change after 'Minister for the Olympics' snub

Paralympic athletes say they welcome an addition of Paralympics to the Queensland Premier's formal titles but still question why it was left off in the first place.

ABC News · Sep 30, 2022

Winds of ‘radical change’: Queensland breaks up with coal in stunning week in energy

Annastacia Palaszczuk promised to ditch coal by 2035, leaving experts ‘gobsmacked’ given the state’s deep association with the fossil fuel

The Guardian - AU · Sep 30, 2022

Fleets of Toyota utes set to go electric thanks to small Queensland startup

Toyota's lack of eagerness in the electric vehicle market has left room for an Australian startup to bridge the gap.

The New Daily · Sep 30, 2022

Meredith bags five as Bulls rolled in Cup

Paceman Riley Meredith has taken career-best domestic one-day figures of 5-26 to help Tasmania dismiss Queensland for 144 in their Marsh Cup clash in Brisbane.

AAP · Sep 30, 2022

BOM says more rain on the way for east coast as the north-west cops a drenching

Rainfall records are tumbling in parts of the country while the east enjoys a period of relative calm, but forecasters say that will not last long.

ABC News · Sep 30, 2022

DNA retesting paused in Queensland after police fears process could exhaust evidence, inquiry hears

The inquiry heard Queensland police had concerns a blanket approach to concentrating the samples could make a profile unusable.

ABC News · Sep 30, 2022