John Taylor

Australia is on track to record its greatest ever harvest of mung beans, marking a remarkable change for a crop once called mongrel beans.

A former Queensland strawberry farmer turned inventor uses drones to spread predatory insects over farmland so they can kill pests that would otherwise eat crops.

An inquest into the death of Danish student Rebekka Meyer, who was cycling on a notorious stretch of road in Brisbane, hears conflicting evidence from eight witnesses.

Three men are convicted of importing nearly half a tonne of cocaine into Australia by boat five years ago.

A Queensland grains company is fined $680,000, and one of its directors imprisoned, for making false certificates about the fumigation of thousands of tonnes of chickpeas exported to India.

A 43-year-old primary school teacher from north of Brisbane appears in court charged with possessing and accessing child pornography.

One of Queensland's most senior police officers refuses to shake the hand of a Gold Coast police whistleblower accused of leaking security vision of an alleged assault by colleagues.

A Queensland man who had a murder charge against him dropped last year is committed to stand trial after a new witness came forward despite fears he too would be killed.

Major systemic failures and "seriously deficient" mission planning contributed to the murder of three Australian soldiers in an insider attack in Afghanistan in 2012, a coronial inquest hears.

Former LNP minister Bruce Flegg wins $775,000 in a defamation case against his one-time media adviser Graeme Hallett.

One of Queensland's highest profile police officers, the longstanding head of the Fraud and Corporate Crime Group, Detective Superintendent Brian Hay, is being investigated.

Former Bundaberg surgeon Jayant Patel is barred from ever practising medicine again in Australia.

A woman was promised $30,000 to enter into a scam marriage with an Indian man, a Brisbane court hears.

The appointment of a new Queensland premier marks an end to the remarkable rise and fall of Campbell Newman.

This week people will gather for Remembrance Day services at memorials big and small, and this year also marks the 90th anniversary of a unique Brisbane anti-war memorial called The Temple of Peace.

South-west Qld the state's melanoma hotspot

The Schapelle Corby saga captured Australia's imagination for the best part of a decade.

The father of a teenage ironman who died at the national titles two years ago hits out at Surf Life Saving Australia over the death of 14-year-old Matthew Barclay.

The father of a teenage ironman who died at the national titles two years ago hits out at Surf Life Saving Australia over the death of 14-year-old Matthew Barclay.