If you're looking for a project to keep you busy over the spring and summer months, one Tasmanian council thinks they've got the ultimate opportunity. But anyone afraid of heights may want to think carefully about applying.

A federal parliamentary inquiry has heard Rio Tinto did not tell traditional owners there were three other options which would have spared the Juukan Gorge rock shelters from destruction in May.

Who can enter Queensland has changed. As of Saturday August 8 Queensland's borders will close to people coming from Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

The Queensland Government hands Dreamworld's parent company a $70 million funding boost to reopen after the pandemic forced them to close their doors for several months.

"We always want the world to stop and pause for different problems, but it keeps going, so you've just got to keep going and try and look at things as positive as you can."

The trucking of oversize loads along the Great Western Highway is expected to take several months but planners aim to keep traffic disruptions to a minimum.

Record high gold prices and closed borders spark a boom in gold prospecting in Western Australia's Goldfields region, and metal detectors are flying off shelves around the state.

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Carnarvon has been devastated by the silting up of its main waterway for years; now, the State Government will pay for a permanent fix as part of its pandemic recovery plan.

New evidence of a platypus population emerges amid a development boom on the city's urban fringe.

Some of the poorest communities in Australia paying double prices for basic items like nappies and bananas, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

A proposed $4 million waste-to-energy incinerator, which would turn non-recyclable items into electricity, has residents at Ipswich, west of Brisbane, up in arms over concerns it will encourage people to create more waste, rather than recycle it.

The loss of forest, especially pine plantations, means a cloud of economic uncertainty hangs over Tumbarumba in southern NSW.

A surge of arrivals to Queensland face waits at the border, a day after the state lifted coronavirus travel bans on most interstate visitors.

Ockert Le Roux is one of the Limestone Coast's most in-demand photographers, but he's never had a formal lesson, works in forestry full-time and takes 20 per cent of photos on his phone.

Painters and colour consultants say grey is the new beige when it comes to house exteriors, with "neutral" tones spreading across our cities. But a Brisbane artist says seeing newly "bland" streetscapes is "heartbreaking".

Human rights groups say a police investigation into six Al Jazeera journalists — including five Australians — is another example of Malaysia's diminishing press freedom.

Victoria's coronavirus crisis has managed to bring the state's $800 million snow season to its knees, as two major ski fields cancel reservations and close lifts.

Regional Victoria remains largely untouched by coronavirus and locals want to keep it that way, but fear crowded coaches could spread COVID-19 beyond Melbourne.

An 80-year-old pensioner on Queensland's Sunshine Coast lost his life savings in an online scam, which uses identities like Dick Smith and trusted brands like the ABC to promote them.