Meghan Dansie

Now a ghost town, the community of Mary Kathleen disappeared after the nearby uranium mine closed in 1982. But in its heyday, it was an oasis in outback Queensland.

Working on a cattle station in one of the most remote parts of Australia, these backpackers say outback life is an opportunity that more young Australians should be taking up.

Fossilised remains thought to be 100 million years old have been identified as a new species of pterosaur, a powerful flying predator with a wingspan of up to 12 metres.

With outback towns stuck in a cycle of workforce shortages and a dire need for childcare, parents are taking care of each other’s children so they can keep their jobs.

Gangalidda man Barry Walden says the community policing team he was part of “ran a tight ship” in the north-western Queensland town before the initiative fell away. He says it is time to bring it back in his outback home.

Bush communities are being forced to trek thousands of kilometres and face year-long waitlists for basic dental health services as industry leaders and locals call for urgent action from the government to attract more dentists to the outback.

Getting access to critical health care is difficult for people in rural areas, so medical professionals hit the road and took to the skies to bring the services to them.

A trial in Cairns is uncovering what happened in the lead-up to the terrifying moment father-of-three Dean Sanderson fell from a zipline in the Daintree Rainforest in 2019.

A Queensland man registered as a child sex offender has been repatriated after allegedly breaching reporting conditions by sailing to the island of Daru in Papua New Guinea.

Two months after the flooding in far north Queensland, communities in isolated townships ask whether it is wise to rebuild in the same places.