Tag: Queensland

WATCH: The moment cyclonic gusts swept through a Brisbane backyard, hoisting the kids' tramp up in to the air like a piece of rice paper.

Terrified campers at popular Inskip Point escaped with their lives after massive hole opened up underneath them.

A British tourist, lost in the Queensland bush, were rescued with a simple SOS message written in the sand - after a two-day survival ordeal.

Watch the first fun interview with a 'survivor' to hit YouTube but be warned some might find the content a bit offensive.

Snow, strong winds and hail lash Australia's Sunshine state.

What's that? A cyclone? Pfft. It's only category five on the whatever scale. Surf's up!

Cyclone Marcia downgraded to a category 1 system, but not before Rockhampton and Yeppoon suffer worst of her fury.

WATCH: Dramatic footage of Fitzroy River, swollen by Cyclone Marcia, pounding through Rockhampton.

The cyclone off Australia’s eastern coast is now predicted to be of the highest level intensity when it makes landfall.

It hasn't even hit yet and already the Cyclone Marcia jokes are flooding in. Australia just couldn't resist #MarciaMarciaMarcia

The tropical cyclone heading for Queensland now a category 3 and could be category 4 when it crashes into the coast on Friday morning.

Queensland has a new premier after Labor secures minority government.

Will Queensland voters be thinking about Tony Abbot as they head to the polls in the election?

Australia or the United Kingdom - which is more photogenic? Let's ask Instagram...

Clive Palmer has wasted no time in weighing in on the Queensland election, but can he be believed?

Crocodile handler who lost a thumb says he does not blame the crocodile for the mauling.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman is expected on Tuesday to announce a state election for 31 January.

Car pummeled by huge hail stones during 'superstorm' in Brisbane, Australia.

A recent poll revealed the top ten Australian destinations. Here's what to add to your Australian travel bucket list.

This weekend's Caloundra Music Festival offers a smorgasbord of Aussie music, including a rare chance to catch some truly classic Oz performers all in one place. Baby Animals, Skunkhour, James Reyne and Tina Arena, anyone?

In ‘Project Wing’, Google are testing self-flying delivery drones in the Australian Outback. (Watch the video, here).

A petition spearheaded by Paula Orbea is after the heads behind Wicked Campers who hire some of Australia’s most controversial camper vans.

Queenslanders have been so diligent in feeding excess electricity from their home solar panels back into the grid that their electricity price remained at $0.00 for a few days last week.

Category one cyclone Ita will continue to move south along the coast until late Monday, bringing torrential rain and gusts.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman is in talks with the federal government to get more immigrants and refugees to settle in regional areas.

Six paintings printed on aluminium will be on display at an underwater art exhibition on the Great Barrier Reef.

ELECTION13 | Queensland entrepreneur Clive Palmer is expected to win the Sunshine Coast electorate of Farifax, with several other Palmer United Party members highly likely to take positions in parliament.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | A Guardian Lonergan poll suggests the coalition could pick up Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Brisbane seat of Griffith.

Police have arrested the ringleader of an organised criminal syndicate that allegedly used backpackers to sell forged jewellery throughout Queensland.

Australian researches have found a way to improve the hydrating qualities of beer, without compromising on taste. By adding electrolytes to the amber ale, the researchers from a Queensland university may even have found a way to avoid a post-drink hangover.

ELECTION13 | Recent polling suggests that former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie will be defeated in the electorate of Forde at the federal election on 7 September.

The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has been spotted enjoying an Australian holiday in far north Queensland.

The Queensland parliament’s ethics chief MP Peter Dowling has apologised for sexting his mistress and has stood aside from his role, pending an investigation.

Campaigner Bob Irwin says he’s stunned by the lack of policy debate about Australia’s increasingly degraded natural environment.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard says a menu circulating on the internet from a Liberal National Party fundraising menu is “grossly sexist and offensive”, and the Opposition should disendorse former Howard government minister Mal Brough as the candidate for the Queensland seat of Fisher.

Federal Education Minister Peter Garrett has been banned from setting foot on the campus of any Queensland school, with the Newman Government claiming that it was taking action to prevent the state’s educational facilities from becoming “the venue for the Gonski media roadshow.”

Two men have died and two remain in a critical condition after drinking a bad batch of home brew grappa in rural Queensland, with the government saying that it will investigate the incident in order to determine whether steps must be taken to prevent the same thing happening again.

Former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has revealed that she underwent surgery to have a tumour removed from a lymph node in her neck last week and has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

A live 12-hour interactive show about the Great Barrier Reef, featuring underwater tweets and footage from divers, is being broadcast on YouTube. Watch the video below.

Queenslanders will each fork out an additional $181 as a result of the Newman Government’s second budget announcement yesterday, which is expected to earn the state an additional $1 billion in revenue over the next fiscal year.

INTERVIEW | On the back of a successful second album, You're A Shadow, Hungry Kids of Hungary are once again sharing their sound with London and the UK. GEORGE KATRALIS chats to vocalist Kane Mazlin.

Queensland’s education minister says his state won’t follow the lead of NSW in signing up to Canberra’s schools reform.

The Queensland government have announced new changes to the state’s bicycle safety laws, creating an exemption to provide for members of the Sikh community that are unable to wear a helmet over their religiously-mandated turbans.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard warning her against naming a new governor-general before this year’s federal election. Government insiders are speculating Abbott intends to nominate former mentor John Howard to the position if the Coalition is elected in the September poll.

Queensland based artist Caroline Magerl will be demonstrating her portrait preparation techniques in London at the Debut Contemporary in Westbourne Grove on Saturday 9 March.

UK SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | It is difficult to ‘come out’ in such a public forum, but it feels good to get it off my chest after all this time.

Whatever your reasons might be for packing up and heading off, you might like to know that the Queensland Government is currently looking to fill over 150,000 job vacancies in various locations and vocations.