Geometrical hexafoil are thought to serve as a sign of protection.

For William Jane, the decline in Australian bread consumption has seen his business boom. In the space of two years, he's gone from baking 12 loaves a day to 800.

A group of farm workers claiming they were underpaid are hit with a rent bill in the lead-up to a Federal Court hearing.

The world of Raj Manikam and his family came crashing down when a test found a hidden disease that could see them deported due to "significant costs to the community".

Immigration Minister David Coleman overturns a department ruling based on Rajasegaran Manikam's kidney disease diagnosis that would have seen the Manikam family deported to Singapore.

Wind farm developments in Victoria will now have to have noise levels checked by an independent auditor, before and after construction.

Conservationists are struggling in the fight against many introduced species in the Otways, but they hope a new program will limit the number of feral pigs before they cause too much damage.

ANZ customers can no longer utilise banking services at their local post offices after the bank failed to reach an agreement with Australia Post on their Bank@Post service.

A dairy company that accused foreign workers of owing rent after allegations of underpayment arose has agreed to an out-of-court settlement.

A regional council looks set to hand back $1 million in drought funding as the Federal Government concedes it needs to review how it hands out assistance to communities battling dry weather.

Almost two years after millions of microplastics spilled onto pristine beaches in Victoria and sparked an emergency response from authorities, the plastic's origin remains a mystery.

Despite not being able to help his niece as she battled aplastic anaemia, Daniel Roberts stayed on the bone marrow donor list, and just two years later he was reduced to tears when he got the call.

Every year, thousands of short-tailed shearwaters, or mutton birds, descend on Victoria's coastline at the end of September or early October after a mammoth journey from the northern hemisphere, but so far this year they haven't shown up.

Ratepayers Victoria has accused high-ranking council employees of silencing staff who tried to raise concerns about alleged fraudulent spending and cover-ups of financial impropriety.

A man that suffered a shark attack at Norval Park, north of Bundaberg, has called for the State Government to consider a shark cull or implementing shark nets.

Maryborough's 'Magna Carta' mangrove tree.

Maryborough's 'Magna Carta' mangrove tree.

Maryborough's 'Magna Carta' mangrove tree.

Big business is set to be hit with hundreds of millions of dollars in extra taxes and royalties as the Palaszczuk Government seeks to tap the top end of town to deliver payroll tax relief to small- and medium-sized businesses, in the hope of boosting jobs particularly in regional Queensland.

When cattle farmer Lindsay Titmarsh decided to carbon date a grey mangrove that had caught his eye on his Queensland property, he discovered it was the oldest known mangrove in Australia.

A horror summer season has seen fruit and vegetable growers in Queensland go to extraordinary lengths to grow crops.

Eyewear giant Specsavers has admitted that the personal information of some clients in Queensland is missing and may have been stolen.

Australia watched with sadness earlier this year as cattle country in north-west Queensland and hundreds of thousands of cattle died. Four months later, in drought-and-flood ravaged Julia Creek, families are desperately trying to adapt to their new normal.

A move by one regional council to permit outdoor funerals is backed by the funeral industry which says they could become commonplace as people move away from church-based ceremonies.

Police charge a 69-year-old Bundaberg man with the cold case murder of Rex Keen, who was found bashed and stabbed to death in his Brisbane hotel room more than 40 years ago.

Queensland foreign-owned companies warn a new tax will put regional jobs at risk and challenge the viability of their businesses.

A former bank that was the birthplace of Mary Poppins creator P.L. Travers has been converted into a museum in Maryborough, Queensland, where it is hoped it will prove a drawcard for tourists.

Almost 11,000 people sign an online petition demanding the Director of Public Prosecutions appeal the sentence of a Maryborough man who bashed a two-year-old girl, leaving her with a broken back in 2017, with the Queensland Opposition calling on the Palaszczuk Government to act immediately.

From his nursing home in Hervey Bay, 98-year-old Jack Hanson remembers how a few hundred Australians fought off thousands of Japanese troops, in a David and Goliath battle on Timor.

The Indigenous owners of Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island, are frustrated by delays in their claim for compensation from the Queensland Government.

The family of a boy with ADHD that sometimes causes him to "bite, punch" and "kick" is suing Education Queensland for alleged discrimination by teachers who restrained him when he became "disruptive" and "aggressive".

The corporate regulator is taking the Bank of Queensland (BOQ) and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank to court for imposing "unfair" contract terms on their small business customers.