Meghan Dansie

As Mount Isa grapples with one of the highest crime rates in Queensland and more than 1,000 imminent job losses, local leaders want a prison to be built in their backyard.

A remote Queensland council is enticing people to move from interstate with the promise of a guaranteed rental and lucrative mining jobs.

Australian phosphate miners are looking to boost India's food and manufacturing industries and gain a bigger foothold in the world's fastest-growing large economy. 

A group of women on Mornington Island have been learning to make high-quality swags for people in need of beds in their small, isolated community.

As major airlines face a Senate inquiry and airfare rise across Australia, outback residents are paying the price of an international ticket to travel to their nearest capital city.

When tree-changers Frank and Debbie Wust bought the pub that starred in Crocodile Dundee just over a decade ago, they had no idea it also meant helping to run an outback community.

Never short of a soundbite, the MP has gone from country kid to Bjelke-Petersen-era Queensland, to federal parliament. 

Former Cloncurry councillor John Dane Swalling has been handed a suspended prison term for making fraudulent flood relief claims.

Irreplaceable mementos of a club with deep connections to the Mount Isa community are being mourned after fire ripped through its base.

The impact of several recent small mine closures is being felt in north-west Queensland, still laden with some of the largest critical mineral deposits in the country.