Julia Andre

Mount Isa students say a university centre in the town would enable more people to pursue tertiary degrees without the cost of relocating to study.

Residents say they feared for their lives while pedestrians narrowly avoided being hit, police say. Local leaders call for a complete overhaul of the youth justice system.

It’s hoped the arrival of virtual reality in vulnerable, remote communities will give mothers and babies a safer birthing experience while helping to ease the critical shortage of nurses and doctors in the outback.

When fly-in fly-out security had little success engaging with Mornington Island’s young people, residents decided to take matters into their own hands.

Despite not having a rate base and barely any revenue streams, an isolated town is tackling a decades-old housing and infrastructure crisis.