The Latest Breaking News from State Library of Queensland

One resignation letter expresses ‘disgust’ over library’s decision to rescind First Nations author’s $15,000 award after arts minister weighs in

This week, Martu writer Karen Wyld had her A$15,000 blackwrite fellowship withdrawn – just hours before the (cancelled) ceremony at State Library of Queensland, where she was to receive it for a fiction manuscript on the Stolen Generations. The Queensland arts minister, John-Paul Langbroek, and premier David Crisafulli had directly…

After thousands of people were taken from islands in the Pacific in the 19th century and brought to Australia to work, their only link home was storytelling and song — now, with the rise of social media and affordable travel, their descendants are working to reunite families that were torn…

Australian tennis legend Pat Rafter opens up about his barefooted childhood as one of 10 kids – and an emotional homecoming to visit his brother's grave.

When war was on the doorstep to Australia's north 80 years ago, nearly 900 Torres Strait Islanders signed up to help protect the country despite not being able to enter pub, earn a fair wage, or be counted in the Commonwealth census.

As her home was burning, Ellen Francis Cartwright handed her three-year-old daughter to her husband and went back inside to find others. She never came back.

What started as a dirt strip hosting horse and carriage traffic in the 1800s had long attracted fashion conscious shoppers — but it wasn't until 1982 that the mall was created.

A leading geoscientist says two popular Cairns beaches will become mudflats over the coming decades, a revelation that would affect the beaches' waterfront home owners.

My mum's story has haunted my family, and it's helping me understand why some First Nations women avoid hospitals, writes Carly Williams.