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If African Swine Fever gets into Australia what happens next? Authorities have played out a mock scenario to work out how to best handle an outbreak.

Eight Queensland shires and councils including the Fraser Coast, Moreton Bay, Gympie, Gold Coast and Logan join 37 other drought-declared areas.

A Sunshine Coast man has been accused, after a year-long investigation, of paying children up to $1,000 for explicit videos and photos. Police allege he provided victims with ATM codes to make the transactions.

Queensland police have found three children reported missing from Apple Tree Creek near Childers in Queensland earlier today.

The 16 Australian victims include an entire Sydney family of four, as well as three out of four members of another Sydney family and a pair of high school sweethearts from Coffs Harbour.

A Brisbane mother and daughter and an Adelaide man have died, while two Sydney families of four and tourists from Coffs Harbour are among those missing in the wake of the New Zealand volcano eruption.

For thousands of years, Indigenous Australians met in the Bunya Mountains to feast on the rich nuts of the bunya tree, in what's believed to be the biggest meeting of Aboriginal groups in Australia. But something is killing the ancient trees and scientists and Indigenous rangers are worried.

If you borrow a human from the State Library of Queensland and return them late, you will still be charged a late fee. In a bid to share local history in a unique way, real people with interesting stories are now on loan.

The chance to appear at a fifth-straight Olympic Games is inspiring Australian tennis player Sam Stosur as she enters her 21st year on the world tour.

An advanced cancer treatment machine that decreases the risk of radiation side effects will be used on a patient in Australia for the first time today.

Grey nomads are among scores of people who have lost tens of thousands of dollars after the collapse of a motor home dealer and conversion company.

A Far North Queensland woman is jailed for more than nine years for sex offences against her own son and three nephews which left the boys "sad, suicidal and angry".

Queensland is one step closer to making history, with state leaders moving to launch an official bid for the 2032 Olympic Games.

Tomatoes, strawberries and fresh seafood could spoil in sheds, unable to get to Sydney consumers, as the Currowan fire blocks South Coast highways.

An inquest into the death of Queensland toddler Mason Jet Lee cannot be about "vengeance or blame", but instead learning how future tragedies can be prevented, a Brisbane court is told.

A 12-year-old girl accused of stabbing two people at a shopping centre in Far North Queensland is charged with multiple offences after a 16-year-old girl and a 47-year-old woman were allegedly attacked inside a surf wear shop yesterday.

An artist whose work was withdrawn from an exhibition in Queensland says what he was trying to say has deliberately been mischaracterised by local politicians — but the RSL says he's putting veterans' mental health at risk.

We need to be honest about this: Son grapples with the morality of his father's role in Australia's wartime stockpile of mustard gases.

An Australian man accused of being a member of an Islamic terror group will be extradited from Adelaide to Queensland. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says the man will face a number of terrorism-related charges.

An Australian man accused of being a member of the Islamic State terror group appears in an Adelaide court where permission was granted for his extradition to Queensland.