Fred Brophy will sell you a ticket, spin you a yarn and dare you into the ring, but at 73, the outback ringmaster is slowing down.

For generations, farmers and outback communities have relied on the bush telegraph during floods but it has fallen silent in recent years, leaving residents without up-to-date information.

From retired teachers to builders and ringers, these seniors are fixing fences and homes, and restoring hope, in the outback.

From the search for Daniel Morcombe to a flaming roadside torso, Queensland's top forensics cop deals with some of the state's worst crimes — when she's not identifying fallen Australians on WWI battlefields.

The owners of the Olive Downs mine in central Queensland have been ordered to pay cattle breeder James Gorman almost $53 million. 

Fire ant treatments have been suspended on organic farms, and alternatives sought, after baits containing genetically modified soybean oil and corn grit were found to have been unwittingly distributed.

Step into one of Australia's few biosafety level 4 facilities, where scientists handle highly transmissible and potentially lethal pathogens such as Ebola and Hendra virus.