Between 1863 and 1904, 62,000 South Sea Islanders were transported to Australia, landing in Brisbane, Maryborough, Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Mackay, Bowen, Townsville, Innisfail and Cairns. Most indentured labourers arrived from the New Hebrides, with a substantial proportion taken from the Solomons, as well as smaller islands.
A leading Queensland eco-tour operator says he fears proposed changes to saltwater crocodile management will lead to increased culling.
Researchers at James Cook University say they’ve solved the mysterious death of tens of millions of mangrove trees along the Gulf of Carpentaria coast in 2016.
A three year study of plastic waste in the central Great Barrier Reef area has found there is a risk to marine organisms from plastic exposure.
People go missing under the most ordinary of circumstances. Efforts to find them give rise to stories of extraordinary effort, determination, and courage.
Traditionally, temperatures above 30℃ in the UK are considered hot. But to see temperatures already exceeding 40℃ is shocking.
The Australian government should be supporting not fighting an in-danger status for the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, experts say.
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.
The Queensland Police Service has lowered its recruitment age to 17 as part of a bid to boost the number of new officers hitting the beat over the next three years.
Meet the pretenders, the volunteers helping students become the future doctors of north Queensland
Mature rainforest trees may be facing a greater threat from strangling vines as warmer temperatures fuel the parasite's growth.
After 14 years driving the historic Gulflander, the train from "nowhere to nowhere", Ken Fairbairn is moving on to another great rail adventure
Australian oil and gas producers have had to shell out 40% of their profits in tax, in addition to 30% company tax on profits, for years. And yet the amount collected is tiny: $2.4 billion.
University of Queensland scientists are studying a worm species fed a diet of polystyrene in the hope of discovering enzymes that could break down plastic.
Queensland began life under new head coach Billy Slater with a gritty performance studded with flashpoints of impressive skill.
Hormones make women’s hands, feet and ears stay around three degrees Celsius cooler than men’s.
Old Holden Commodores don't usually turn heads or start conversations. But Les Cook gets plenty of both wherever he takes his dark green VT model. Les owns Australia’s only electric powered Commodore
A proposed crackdown on tobacco in Queensland could lead to a smoking ban at outdoor markets and the licensing of vape sales.
Beaudesert Hospital Maternity unit has won a prestigious national award, just eight years after birthing services resumed at the facility
A statue of British seafarer James Cook has been removed from a plinth beside the main street of Cairns, after a long and sometimes controversial debate about its future.
Queensland’s Department of Environment and Science will relocate a freshwater crocodile that turned up last week at the showgrounds in the north Queensland town of Bowen.
A Queensland fair food advocate says urgent structural change is needed to reduce oversupply of fresh produce that leads to crops being dumped.
Seven months after appearing in court for "being a dickhead" and trying to sneak in squirrels from Bali, Jolly was charged in March 2021 for drug trafficking following a police search of his Tewantin residence.
The jobs-generating Lansdown Eco-Industrial Precinct infrastructure masterplan get the go-ahead from Townsville City Council.
Kahn Goodluck says genuine leadership is needed from governments to meet his region's top issue, the transition to clean, renewable energy.
Guess what's in the roof? This Queensland couple get the shock of their life!
Meet the amazing families who have been raising money for Cystic Fibrosis for 10 years.
Researchers are concerned about a rise in a mystery disease that eats away turtle shells since this year's devastating floods in Queensland.
A new study has painted a sobering picture about the risk of intense tropical cyclones in the near future, as the climate changes.
