The Sunshine Coast Council has applied for international designation to establish a Dark Sky Reserve in the region’s hinterland to protect its natural night skies.
Communities in the firing line of a powerful tropical cyclone are on edge amid memories of past storms that have devastated the region.
The fuel crisis has raised issues for the government on multiple fronts, writes Michelle Grattan.
Pete Hegseth wasn’t just chosen to run the Pentagon. He is also waging a cultural and ideological battle inside it.
Olympic chiefs have delivered a ruling on transgender women athletes that will reshape the Brisbane games.
Adelaide have been left to rue slow starts for two consecutive weeks but coach Matthew Nicks is confident they don’t need to change anything.
Qantas has confirmed the number of Jetstar flights between Brisbane and New Zealand will be reduced.
Madeline Stuart – dubbed by the press as the world’s first supermodel with Down syndrome and autism – will lead Australia to the ICU World Championships this April.
Cost experts at Rider Levett Bucknall say that with Brisbane’s construction market months away from full capacity, apartment projects should progress before the Olympics price out the market.
Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s official season opening concert Umberto’s Mahler Five on Friday March 20.
Australia’s tobacco wars are fuelling violence, with widespread firebombings. There is a push to treat those behind them like “drug lords”.
ABC has begun re-running old programs and will not have a 7pm news bulletin after thousands of staff walked off the job for the first major strike in 20 years.
As the Middle East war throws global supply chains into chaos, a novel solution to Australia’s fuel crisis has emerged.
A key aluminium smelter will receive billions of dollars in government funding to stay open until 2040, the latest metals manufacturer to be bailed out.
In shock news for MAFS fans, one of the programme’s much-loved experts has died aged 54 years. She leaves behind her husband and 10-year-old daughter.
Reports are emerging that the United States is planning to send in thousands of elite paratroopers to the Middle East as US President Trump tries to get the Strait of Hormuz reopened to shipping traffic.
Measures to help more diesel flow into the domestic market have been announced as hundreds of service stations across Australia struggle with fuel shortages and SA sees an increase in non-payment drive offs.
Australia’s wine industry is raising concerns about a new trade deal with the European Union’s tough rules for exporting a popular fizz from local wineries.
Alinta Energy wants to erect up to 30 wind turbines near Proserpine, but local cane farmers fear the project could harm their operations in the district.
On Wednesday, St Vincent de Paul Society will launch its annual Sleepout to tackle homelessness at one of Brisbane’s most visible rough sleeping locations, revealing the number of Queenslanders now estimated to be on the social housing waiting list.
Queensland will be among the first states to dramatically tighten rules on e‑scooters and e‑bikes under safety reforms introduced in parliament.
Australia and Europe have struck a historic pact covering trade, defence and innovation after almost a decade of at-times intractable negotiations. Ag and mineral exports win but some farmers are angered over meat exports.
With social cohesion badly fraying, politicians desperately need to find the rhetoric to help glue our multiculturalism back together, writes Michelle Grattan.
Today, Institute of Economic Research Australia chair John Blackburn on how Australia botched its emergency fuel plan.
Trump announces reprieve on Iranian bombing claiming it comes after “productive conversations” – one immediately rejected by Iranian leaders.
