One day, George went up to his bowls club bar and asked for a café latte. He meant to say ‘beer’, but his early-stage dementia got in the way. In that moment of human frailty, George started a movement that’s changing the way we understand dementia and the almost half a million Australians affected by it.
It’s being hailed as a colourful masterpiece and it tends to confirm the contemporary view that art can be anything, anywhere. It’s a dazzling mural painted on a pipeline across the old Thomson River Bridge in Longreach, created by a team of students from the Griffith University Queensland College of Art.
Rockhampton residents have flooded their local council with suggestions on how to manage flood risk in the region.
Search efforts for three fishermen who failed to return in waters off far north Queensland will be scaled back.
A man had his throat slashed after tensions boiled over when he took a photo of a female friend smoking drugs, a Queensland court has heard.
Police are scaling back the air and sea search for three men missing in waters off the far north Queensland coast.
An inquiry into Queensland police's response to domestic and family violence heard up to 40 per cent of an officer's time could be spent on domestic incidents.
The Queensland government is failing to effectively manage the social housing waiting list and ensure people's needs are being met, a report says.
A woman who put a cushion over her father's face in an attempt to kill him says she acted at the request of the 68-year-old who had a brain injury and dementia.
Health authorities have detected the first confirmed case of monkeypox in Queensland.
Queensland Police have "serious concerns" for three men after they failed to return from a far north Queensland fishing trip.
After almost a decade on stage The Naked Magicians plan to revamp their hit show with fresh material and younger performers.
The second day of hearings by the commission of inquiry into Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence will focus on training.
Two people exposed to a horse infected with Hendra virus in North Queensland are set to receive antibody treatment.
The Queensland government is "failing to effectively manage" the state social housing waiting list and ensure people's needs are being met, a report says.
A man is recovering in hospital after being rescued at sea off the far north Queensland coast, but three others remain missing.
Star's interim chief executive can't recall the casino operator paying any fines or being prosecuted for a number of breaches of Queensland laws.
A Queensland dad has avoided jail after he broke a man's jaw when he armed himself with a tree branch and complained about the noise at his neighbours' party.
The Queensland Law Society says none of its members "expressed any interest" in commenting on proposed laws to crack down on money laundering in casinos.
A Queensland environment group is trying to force the re-examination of the biggest fossil fuel projects planned in Australia.
The inquiry is told how the stress of dealing with DV incidents, red tape and criticism are leading to fatigue and insomnia among Queensland police officers.
A 20-year-old has been charged with murder after a fight between two groups at a Brisbane train station that left one man dead.
The Queensland Government will consider reducing recreational and commercial catch limits for Spanish mackerel, to reverse what it says is a sharp decline in fish numbers.
Livingstone Shire Council, in central Queensland, claims it may not have agreed to a boundary review to determine control of three disputed suburbs.
A Queensland man has been jailed after organising an armed robbery pulled off by his rifle-toting mother on his 27th birthday.
Most of Queensland major hospitals have halted non-urgent procedures and care as the state's number of active COVID-19 cases surges towards 41,000.
Another whale has been rescued after being caught in a shark net off the Gold Coast, the third such incident in Queensland in a week.
Queensland's Liberal National Party members are to set to vote on whether to support net zero, and to repeal laws preventing the construction of nuclear plants.
Work has begun on Australia’s first large-scale iron flow battery manufacturing facility, being built near Maryborough.
More than 4000 punters at the Birdsville Big Red Bash music festival in outback Queensland have set a world record for the biggest Nutbush City Limits dance.
Most of us would do whatever it takes to avoid an encounter with the world’s second-deadliest snake, the Australian Eastern Brown. But Ryan Fuller was calm and composed when he climbed in to a confined space with one angry Brown under a Sunshine Coast home in June.
