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The whale shark may be the world's largest fish but locating them on the Great Barrier Reef is like "finding a needle in a haystack".

The South Australian Government is enforcing new restrictions on the island off the western coast in an effort to protect the endangered sea lions that breed there.

After the deaths of two toddlers last month — who were known to the Queensland department of child services — a former child of the system is calling for a major overhaul so future carers and children have greater support and a better shot at life afterwards.

As more people ditch the inner-city for the urban fringe or the country, critically endangered ecosystems are being cleared for housing. And that is a massive problem for our native wildlife.

Tom Bundesen has "been in some pretty dry gullies" in his time, but he's back on "the road of life" — and working 70 hours a week — after a dislocated knee led to him losing his leg.

After years of dispute over whether to embrace or reject the Adani mine, the Wangan and Jagalingou people join forces in a native title claim that the Queensland Government is opposing.

A severe heatwave is gripping South East Queensland, where some communities will sweat through temperatures up to 12 degrees Celsius above average, as firefighters assess damage from the Millmerran bushfire.

When the demand for power exceeds supply, sometimes electricity networks cut people off from power to prevent the whole system from collapsing. It's called load shedding. This is how it works.

Liberal National Party leaders deny there are cultural problems among the Young LNP, despite revelations of another member coming under scrutiny days after three other Young LNP members were suspended over a racist video.

Lawyers representing landholders in the footprint of Clive Palmer's proposed Galilee Basin mine say a recent court decision has stopped them from objecting to it in the Land Court on the basis of the mine's groundwater use.

Coles will pay more than $5 million to Norco dairy farmers after it was found it had not passed on the full amount of a milk price rise, despite claiming it did in a marketing campaign.

A Sunshine Coast couple who allegedly scammed investors with a ponzi scheme to supposedly kickstart the Nashville career of a young country music singer are charged by police.

Rural firefighters in Millmerran are in the midst of another day of above-average heat, with authorities saying they have confirmed at least one property and two other structures were destroyed overnight.

Helen Donnellan was diagnosed with osteoporosis in June, but not wanting to go on medication she took up powerlifting instead.

A Queensland court hears from an alleged eye witness, who says she saw Noosa councillor Frank Pardon, kissing her underage friend in the 1990s.

A new body set up to call out fake news in Queensland's council elections will do little to help voters separate fact from fiction, a social media expert says.

The war is not over for the author of anti-German hate mail within a Sunshine Coast over-50s village, with some residents receiving expletive-laden letters.