After six years of hard work, the Mount Isa resident wants to expand his thriving ... "I'm not actually charging the farmers to have them there," he says. "It's win-win." ...

Phosphate was touted as the outback's next big thing, but the high cost of accessing state-owned rail lines has left another mine in financial strife.

Several towns are cut off by floodwaters as a monsoon trough stretching 1600km from the top of the NT to southwest Queensland ...