As the sun rises over the remote settlement of Burketown in the Australian outback of northern Queensland, the first, pale rays of light illuminate an awesome sight. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

An outback Queensland town has discovered boomerangs really do come back after an artefact stolen from a museum 25 years ago was finally returned by a guilt-ridden US tourist. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

A woman left her three-year-old daughter at a central Queensland school to teach her a lesson after she was naughty. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found wandering alone around Glenmore State School in Rockhampton's north just before 10am. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

A Queensland academic is helping to develop energy-generating windows that could eventually provide enough electricity to power a standard home.

The glass solar cells contain titanium dioxide and are coated in a dye that increases light absorption. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Something lost a claw in a gate but nobody seems to know just what it was. Zoologists couldn't identify it and when it started to "stink" - they threw it out. picked by Browntrout 2 years ago

Frantic police smashed a window to rescue a seemingly unconscious baby from a locked vehicle in Queensland last week only to find it was an extremely lifelike doll. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

A YACHT has been found drifting off the north Queensland coast with computers running and even food on a table ready to eat - but no crew. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The Defence Department is investigating why a rocket launcher was found by a man at a rubbish tip in central Queensland. picked by teaya21 2 years ago

A bomb threat made just over an hour ago has forced the evacuation of passengers on the Tilt train in Queensland.
Picture not related to this incident picked by teaya21 2 years ago

RSPCA is investigating the cruel treatment and possible sexual abuse of a dog found abandoned beside a Queensland highway. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Ambulance workers in are seething over a "disturbing" hoax phone call this morning.

Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman Andrew Christie said a Cairns woman rang 000 around midnight and screamed that her baby had fallen off the bed and stopped breathing. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

My First post..........Cyclone "Guba"??? (pronounced "Gooba")Sounds like 10 year olds are now naming cyclones. Whats next? Cyclone Poopyhead?!?Not that great a first post, but radio DJ's have been taking the mickey out of the name since yesterday!! picked by arae66 10 months ago

Four kittens have been discovered mutilated and beheaded in a park in southwest Queensland.

There are some really cruel people in this world. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

University of Queensland researchers have unlocked new evidence that could help them get to the bottom of our most common phobias and their causes. picked by Blankspace73 5 months ago

Hospital patients in Queensland are to be stamped with barcodes in a move to prevent operations being performed on the wrong body parts. picked by muppet 12 months ago

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A drunken man's threat to blow up half a city with his television remote control forced Australian police to declare a state of emergency at a luxury golf resort, a local court heard Thursday. "One push of the button will blow up half of Brisbane," Fryatt shouted in the standoff last May before police in the Queensland state capital opened fire with rubber bullets. picked by bevissimo 7 months ago

The 6m barnacle-encrusted fibreglass boat, which was yesterday spotted in waters off the Sunshine Coast, is the second mystery vessel to be found in Queensland waters in less than a week. The boat was found upturned and adrift, with the keys still in the ignition and a tank full of fuel.

First ship story picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Terri Irwin has been handed the footage of Steve's death after Queensland authorities broke with protocol to ensure it did not pass into the wrong hands. picked by teaya21 2 years ago

Australia is about to experience its own "dinorush", beginning with today's unveiling of a previously undiscovered 25m-long dinosaur that roamed central-western Queensland about 100 million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The road which runs past Australia Zoo will be renamed after "Queensland's most well-known ambassador ever." picked by Teaya21 2 years ago