Kirrin McKechnie

Nauru residents are trying to keep the ancient practice of frigatebird catching alive.

A young Brisbane uni student signs a deal with a music company to use her cover of the Aussie classic Down Under as the theme for the major TV series Wolf Creek.

A disabled teenager who was dragged from a burning home by his neighbour and carer is fighting for his life in hospital.

Many working parents in Brisbane face a logistical nightmare about what to do with their kids before and after school with a massive shortage of after-school care places in Brisbane.

Last Thursday a 36-year-old man was found dead on Brisbane's bayside. Almost a week later advice from forensic examiners prompts police to treat the death as suspicious and launch an investigation.

More than 60 landholders fighting the New Acland coal mine on Queensland's Darling Downs are dealt a blow as the Supreme Court rejects a Land Court decision that a proposed expansion would be too great a risk to groundwater.

The growth in student numbers is being unfairly rorted by hundreds of families pretending to be locals, the school's council says, but the Queensland Government does not want to put limits on the catchment system.

Federal Nationals Leader David Littleproud says the party has lost one of its greats with the death of reformist premier Mike Ahern. He is being remembered as a man of great integrity.

Once described as the greatest man never to become prime minister, Bill Hayden surrendered a shot at the top job for the sake of Labor Party unity.

Keith Payne was awarded the Victoria Cross for extreme bravery in Vietnam. More than 50 years on, he still can’t shake the trauma of war. But he's learned how to live with it.