Leonie Mellor

Queensland man has severed hand reattached in rare surgery

If you're finding it hard to breathe in Brisbane today there's a good reason — thanks to the smoke haze from southern Queensland bushfires the air quality is currently worse than Beijing.

Hairdresser Sonia Colvin did not always know the right words to say when clients broke down crying, but she has now helped 139 domestic or elder abuse victims find their feet and wants other hairdressers to undergo mandatory training she has developed.

The community on Mornington Island is fighting to revive old market gardens and reintroduce cattle to try and provide jobs and career opportunities — it also wants to bring back alcohol, saying a decade-long ban has turned its people to dangerous home brew.

From the youth hub he set up to help Indigenous kids to the diversionary centre saving lives, Father Mick Lowcock has dedicated his life to helping people turn their lives around in the north-western Queensland mining town of Mount Isa.

Running a 15,000-acre cattle station single handedly is more than a full-time job, but it’s just one of Jodie Muntelwit’s responsibilities as she juggles being a mum to three children and managing a popular tourist destination all on her own.

An outback town in Queensland is looking toward a renewable energy resurgence thanks to the brainchild of a leading economist.

Tributes are flowing for Kate Sinclair, a well-respected doctor and paediatric neurologist, who died suddenly in a farming accident a week ago.

Heading north, deep purples, reds and browns blend through what’s known as the Channel Country, more than 200,000 square kilometres of arid landscape and ancient flood plains.

Queenslanders are this morning waking up to a new government after the LNP snuck home with a narrow majority last night.