Drag bingo and Mardi Gras aren't what you'd typically expect in the thick of the Aussie bush, but this small town welcomes and embraces its queer community.
Families hunting for a better lifestyle say they are buying bigger homes for less money in this Queensland industrial city, where the median house price has risen by 74 per cent in five years.
Researchers were "beginning to wonder if they even existed", but have finally found a new species of worm parasite on a shark after a 20-year worldwide search.
New telehealth technology allows a neurosurgeon to "scrub in" from Brisbane via live feed to assist a Rockhampton general surgeon relieve a brain bleed, in an Australian public hospital first.
Authorities use DNA testing and tracing to work out the origin of fire ants found more than 700 kilometres outside the biosecurity control zone meant to contain the invasive pest.
