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 coronial inquest will be held in November into the treatment given at Nambour Hospital on Queensland' Sunshine Coast to a six-year-old girl who later died after a delay in receiving antibiotics.

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.