In 1966 a salt-of-the-earth banana farmer saw something he couldn't explain that left behind a circular mark in some reeds which he called a "saucer nest". That moment became the inspiration for an international alien hoax and exposed him to the chaotic debate about UFOs.
A band of barefoot boundary bashers has brought junior cricket back to the remote Queensland town of Cunnamulla, and it all started with an 11-year-old boy, some coloured pens, and one very dedicated mum.
An online influencer has come under fire for boasting about feeding a four-metre crocodile in Far North Queensland just a month after penalties for interfering with the reptiles were drastically increased.
A pair of Cairns women have pushed, pulled and shouldered a wheelbarrow to the summit of Africa's highest mountain, in what is believed to be a world first.
Dick Daley has been yapping, tinkering and pumping fuel on the Atherton Tablelands for the past 60 years, at a service station he bought with the help of a 50-pound loan.
Henry Land travels 400km to play cricket every weekend. But after posting hand-drawn flyers around town, the Cunnamulla kid's dream of starting a local cricket team could finally come true.
The species is only known to live atop a handful of mountain peaks in remote Far North Queensland, including Mount Finnigan about 50km south of Cooktown.
Crocs at a Rockhampton reptile farm were flung into the throes of orgiastic ecstasy after a Chinook helicopter hovered low over their pools – and the erotic explosion has researchers very interested.