Ukrainian-born Iryna Dvoskina and husband Yuriy Vdovychenko are the coaching duo behind a handful of Australia's most incredible para-athletes.

Nine photographic panels, so large that they've never been displayed in public until now, depict the construction of Parliament House in Canberra 30 years ago.

A major work by influential German avant-garde artist Joseph Beuys is back on display at the National Gallery, and is taking the space usually occupied by Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles.

Johannes Frerck was a friendly man who sold sausages and sauerkraut from his Darlinghurst shop he was also a staunch supporter of Adolf Hitler and branded a spy who threatened Australia's security.

A vintage FJ Holden panel van is commemorating the daring feats of newsreel crews in the 1940s and 50s when news was served at the movies.

An Australian rifleman who fought in the Boer War was one of eight soldiers awarded a hand-crocheted scarf by Queen Victoria.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On a small bush block some 50 kilometres out of Bowen in north Queensland, a group of anti-coal activists are living harmoniously while also training for civil disobedience.

An agreement with a Chinese company to develop an export processing facility for north Queensland and Northern Territory beef has been signed with a local council.

A Townsville woman says she was hit with a $2,000 "robodebt" notice despite a Federal Minister's claim the debt recovery program was suspended in the wake of February's floods.

In a breakthrough during week three of a nine week trial over Clive Palmer's ill-fated Queensland Nickel venture, a "resolution" is reached on Aurizon's $90 million claim, as talks continue with liquidators trying to claw back money owed to other creditors.

As the NRL finals begin to appear on the horizon, the Wests Tigers jump inside the top eight after scoring five tries to one in their convincing 28-4 win over a disappointing North Queensland Cowboys outfit at Leichhardt Oval.

Resources magnate Clive Palmer settles the majority of the $200 million lawsuit over the collapse of Queensland Nickel, including striking a deal with government-funded liquidators chasing millions in unpaid entitlements for refinery workers.

After denying responsibility for years, billionaire Clive Palmer has agreed to repay millions of dollars over the Queensland Nickel collapse, but he still faces a civil trial that may see him take the witness stand.