Rural communities praise foreign arrivals for helping keep schools and shops open as the Regional Australia Institute calls for greater permanent migration.
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Lions accuse Nth Melbourne-Tasmania of abusing 'spirit' of AFLW over signing spree
North Melbourne-Tasmania won’t play their first AFLW game until next season — but already they have got on the wrong side of the Brisbane Lions for their aggressive approach to the signing period.
Logan, Ipswich mayors suspended amid charges
The Queensland Government last night scrambled to fix an extraordinary bungle which resulted in the premature announcement that four mayors and a councillor had been suspended, hours before new laws had been signed off by the Governor.
Alan Jones denies 'arrogant' and 'vicious' attacks against Wagners over floods
During his defamation trial, the broadcaster maintains his belief that the Wagner quarry was responsible for the deaths of 12 people in the Grantham floods, but says he had no hydrological evidence to support his claims.
Police release images of second Gold Coast 'kidnapper'
Police believe the second man involved in the alleged kidnapping of a Gold Coast boy is hiding out in the Sydney area, and have urged the public not to approach him.
Queensland needs real-time prescription monitoring 'urgently', coroner says
A prescription monitoring system to prevent “doctor shopping” in Queensland is needed urgently within the next two years, rather than the state waiting for a national scheme to come online, an inquest into four opioid deaths finds.
Sexual assaults rise sharply on Gold Coast, women warned to 'stay in groups'
A sharp rise in the number of Gold Coast sexual assaults — half of them in so-called Safe Night Precincts — prompts a senior policeman to warn women to stay in groups while out at night.
'Extraordinary self-indulgence': Man gets 12 years' jail for driving into wife's funeral, killing mourner
Garry Paul Hudson is sentenced to 12 years jail and banned from driving for life after being convicted of manslaughter for killing a woman when he drove his car into a house full of mourners in Kowanyama in 2016.
Gagged farmers hope banking royal commission will expose misconduct
Australian farmers who have been foreclosed on then gagged by big banks hope the next round of the royal commission will help expose misconduct in the rural banking sector.
Parents plead not guilty in Queensland's first female genital mutilation criminal trial
A couple pleads not guilty to removing two young girls from Queensland and taking them to Africa to undergo female circumcision, in the state’s first ever court case involving female genital mutilation.