The decades-old voices of people teaching and learning the Miriwoong language are preserved in a unique collection of magnetic strip cards.

A chalk sketch of the 18th-century Polynesian princess Tynai-mai is on display in the National Library's Cook and the Pacific exhibition.

Fragments of moon rock and an Australian flag sent into space will go on public display next year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing.

A pair of Australian families have bought the world's second-biggest farm, at more than 16,500 square kilometres in size and home to 18,000 cattle.

An rain gauge that uploads real-time climate data to the internet from remote locations could save farmers time, money and help them keep better records.

Temperatures in parts of NSW are expected to exceed 40 degrees including the outskirts of Sydney.

Farms across North Queensland have suffered stock and crop losses of up to 50 per cent in the wake of unprecedented flooding.

Unrequested nude photos are reaching the inboxes of high school students as young as 13 years old via social media apps like Snapchat and Instagram.

A specialist family drug court is set up for the first time in regional Victoria in a bid to address a horrific trend in parental drug abuse.

It's been 30 years since the Daintree rainforest was World Heritage-listed, signalling the end of one industry and the birth of another.

Evacuations are ordered in coastal towns and communities in north Queensland as Tropical Cyclone Debbie bears down, with authorities warning of damaging tidal surges and an impact on a scale not seen since Cyclone Yasi in 2011.

A north Queensland man, whose decomposing and battered body was found in a national park near Townsville in 2015, told friends he owed $10,000 before his body was found in a creek bed, a trial hears.

They're small, feisty and loud and chances are, you have several living in your home. Asian house geckos are one of the most successful invasive species in Australia, and biologists are concerned they're spreading from suburbia into bushland. Curious Brisbane investigates.

Albert Burke served his country and fought on the Western Front, but when he returned home, he was forced onto a mission and later died in the bush, alone.

The SES is urging northern Queensland residents to be ready as a tropical low starts to bring heavy rain to coastal communities north from Rockhampton.

How long will cattle producers have to wait for sorely-needed bitumen? ABC Rural takes a look at the Federal Government's significant budget for Territory roads.

A north Queensland man has been sentenced to life behind bars after he was found guilty of murdering 25-year-old Michael McCabe almost four years ago.

Hundreds of people have signed a petition calling on Queensland MPs to stop a departmental plan to remove 'historic' fishing huts in and around a national park in the state's north.

Emails obtained under freedom of information reveal Adani demanded the names of all federal agency scientists reviewing its contentious groundwater plans so it could check if they were "anti-coal" activists.

Billionaire Clive Palmer is accused of faking entries in a green notebook in a bid to justify draining Queensland Nickel of millions of dollars for anything he wanted before it collapsed in 2016, a court is told.

A Townsville woman's Uber account racks up about $1,500 in fraudulent use across two continents before it is shut down a case that experts warn is indicative of a growing economy in stolen payment details.

Clive Palmer's multi-million-dollar payments to his father-in-law and a mysterious woman in Kyrgyzstan are among the funds he misused from Queensland Nickel coffers before its collapse, a court is told.

South Sydney leaves it late to beat the Cowboys in Townsville, after the Roosters crush the Knights at the SCG and the Raiders get up against Wests Tigers.

A judge gives Clive Palmer a dressing-down for his absence during the Queensland Nickel trial, saying other people who represent themselves in court could not afford to hire lawyers and still show up every day.

A prominent French journalist and his television crew are charged with trespass after being arrested while filming protesters near the Abbot Point coal terminal in north Queensland.

When Dave Suter donated the 'innocuous' wartime artefacts he had once used as bookends, he was shocked to learn they were unexploded WWII bombs.

Clive Palmer is admonished by Justice Debra Mullins over another delay in the Queensland Nickel trial, this time because his expert witness is in Brazil.

A former Queensland Nickel worker who complained to the ATO that her entitlement payment from the company had left her with a tax debt calls on other workers to submit complaints in a bid to have the classification changed.

Police drop trespass charges against prominent French journalist Hugo Clement and his film crew, following their arrest while filming anti-Adani protesters at Abbot Point earlier this week.

Cronulla snaps a five-match losing streak with a 16-14 win over an injury-hit North Queensland to remain in the hunt for the NRL finals.

Prominent French journalist Hugo Clement says his arrest in north Queensland this week will now feature heavily in the documentary he is filming, with the incident sparking a strong international reaction.

Clive Palmer paid just $1 for his Queensland Nickel business seven years before it collapsed over fatal cashflow problems, a liquidator tells a court in Brisbane.