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While the weekend's rain has not been drought-breaking, farmers say it is enough to get back to work.

"He was such a tough old boy," is how Jenny Dyson-Holland describes Calypso who died on the Gold Coast at the weekend, at the ripe old age of 50.

The Piinpi fashion and design exhibition holds special meaning for the First Nations Bendigo Art Gallery curator — it's the language of her great-grandmother all the way from east Cape York Peninsula.

Piles of damaged mattresses, sofas and other furniture are left on the side of the road after flooding parts of South East Queensland and the Darling Downs.

Grant Howard is a Queensland miner with a difference — he's a climate-change activist who campaigns against the industry that pays his wages.

A West Australian band will no longer perform shows that require flying due to its environmental impact, joining a growing number of musicians worried about the carbon footprint of touring.

Queensland MP Llew O'Brien quits the Nationals party room after moving for a spill motion for Barnaby Joyce's leadership challenge. But hours later he wins a ballot to become Deputy Speaker, bringing with it a 20 per cent pay rise.

Australian consumers may soon receive their online purchases faster and via a greener delivery method as retailers look at using pedal power and electric bikes to reduce costs as well as emissions.

Exclusive Australian Bureau of Statistics data reveals the staggering difference in wealth of older Australians in owner-occupied households compared to those that rent.

Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce is backing a study into a new coal power plant while painting himself as a champion of the poor, so they can have "affordable power" — but deputy Labor leader Richard Marles says the market is "not touching this with a barge pole".

Ian Thorpe says a better climate strategy is needed as bushfires become more frequent. He is among Australian Olympic swimming champions volunteering their time to raise funds for bushfire relief at a unique swim clinic in Wollongong.

When Robert Jordan set out to find Australia's old speedway tracks, he could not believe what he found — an amazing array of abandoned sites from a sport many Australians don't even know exists.

Cars were underwater and roads and train lines were cut after heavy rain and severe storms caused flooding in parts of South East Queensland and the Darling Downs.

Tourists are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars after a Gold Coast car rental company is sold and its parent company goes into liquidation, with the ACCC suing the firm in the Federal Court.

Farmers wear many hats, but not too many list singing and dancing in the skills section of their resume. Cilla Pershouse is an exception.