Mount Isa is calling out for migrant workers despite recent anti-immigration marches across the country.

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.

In 2022, the then-17-year-old broke into Ms Lovell's North Lakes home on Boxing Day night and fatally stabbed her in the chest during a struggle. He was sentenced to 14 years in jail last year, but it was reduced last month on appeal.

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.

A report obtained by lobby group Lock The Gate under right-to-information laws reveal a mine in central Queensland was releasing sediment into environmentally sensitive areas for more than a decade.

Health officials in Cairns publish a list of potential measles exposure sites after a locally acquired case of the illness.

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