The Queensland government is launching a Parliamentary Inquiry into the state's container refund scheme, Containers for ...

The National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA) is warning there will be significant and ongoing health impacts as a result of ...

North Queensland continues to be battered by heavy rain, with the slow-moving monsoonal trough potentially bringing another 700 millimetres of rain before it dissipates over the weekend.

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Severe flooding in Queensland has forced thousands of people to evacuate, cut power to homes and washed away sections of a vital highway. In Townsville, one of the hardest-hit cities in the region ...

Australian authorities are scrambling to help isolated communities in Queensland after a flooding emergency forced thousands of evacuations, cut power to homes and washed away sections of a vital ...

SYDNEY – One person died on Feb 2 in north Queensland amid heavy flooding, regional authorities said, urging thousands of people to move to higher ground due to torrential rains. The Queensland ...

Impacted areas are dotted along the 735-kilometer (456 mile) stretch of the Queensland coast from Cairns – a gateway to the Great Barrier Reef - to Mackay, with the city of Townsville ...

Parts of North Queensland have been hit by more than a metre of rain and a key road has crumbled, with warnings residents could be cut off ‘for weeks’. Parts of North Queensland smashed by ...

Warmest days on average 43.6 °C at Urandangi Aerodrome Coolest days on average 27.3 °C at Applethorpe Coldest day 22.3 °C at Toowoomba Airport on the 10th Coldest night 10.8 °C at Applethorpe on the ...