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Lyndon Allen Kingston was recruited directly from APRA to run the Bananacoast Community Credit Union, but they sacked him in 2017 and he is now charged with providing false documents.

Prosecutors relying on new DNA testing results linking a man to a murder scene have their application to retry the man rejected by the Court of Appeal.

The Liberal National Party suspends three members of the Young LNP after a video was posted online showing one of its branch leaders smirking at a racist slur.

Australia’s national grain crop wilts to its smallest yields in 12 years as dry and hot weather continue to impact production.

'Can the Plan' says it has secured a deal with the Federal Water Minister to seek a review of water sharing and entrench investigative powers across jurisdictions.

Henry shot to fame in 2013 as the first polar bear born at Sea World on the Gold Coast, but his new habitat in Canada is strapped for cash.

Powering your neighbourhood with a small solar array, wind turbine and batteries could be the next big thing as microgrids set up across Australia.

Brisbane lawyer Alexandra Geelan is so afraid of fish, she won't swim in open water, while Dr Robert Raven tackled his fear of spiders by becoming an arachnologist. Their phobias started in childhood, but research shows unusual fears can happen at any age.

A project using smart water meters in remote Indigenous Australian communities helps locals cut water use by up to half.

Watch-and-act level blazes flare in the south-east of the state as the weather bureau warns hot and dry weather will see the return of a severe fire danger and the mercury climbing above 40 degrees Celsius in southern parts of Queensland.

It's certainly not what we wanted to hear, but the BOM says we've just had the driest spring in 120 years of records and the fifth hottest for the nation as a whole.

A carpenter who almost tore off his thumb has endured hunger and fear as he spent a third day waiting for emergency surgery at Sunshine Coast University Hospital.

Anyone who has experienced the child support system knows it is complicated, but when parents who owe money do not pay up, it can push families below the poverty line.

Cracow stars in the horror-comedy Two Heads Creek, a tiny town its publican says is "haunted" and thus a perfect location for the cinematic undead.

An enthusiastic young farmhand's outlandish leaf skirt helps him gain exposure for a little-known fruit and sell his perishable harvest through social media

An enthusiastic young farmhand's outlandish leaf skirt helps him gain exposure for a little-known fruit and sell his perishable harvest through social media

Wearing his budgie smugglers, swimming cap and goggles, endurance athlete Sam Penny is ready to attempt to break a world record and become the first person to swim the English Channel in winter.

The Australian Conservation Foundation says parts of a north Queensland property set aside as habitat for the vulnerable greater glider have been cleared illegally, prompting a federal investigation.

Farmers who have had no access to irrigation water in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin could be eligible for cheap water from next week.