Queensland

Snakes on a plane are so passé. Why not look Down Under for something different. A platypus being held by two commuters as they boarded a train in the Australian state of Queensland sparked a police hunt Thursday over concerns for the wellbeing of the rare monotreme.

Two helicopters collided in an Australian tourist hotspot, killing four passengers and critically injuring three others.

An Australian man is lucky to be alive after he floated for nearly 24 hours in shark- and crocodile-infested waters while only hanging on to a piece of wood.

Police in Queensland, Australia, charged a woman with arson on Sunday after she allegedly set fire to a hotel room in which she was quarantined according to state coronavirus protocol, Australia’s Seven News reported Monday.

ITV’s reality TV show I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! has been blamed for triggering a lockdown — which has affected thousands of Australians — after a crew member contracted the Chinese coronavirus.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, went into a sixth lockdown on Thursday, with a state government leader blaming the nation’s slow COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

Jeannette Young, the chief health officer of Queensland, Australia, told a press conference on Tuesday that unvaccinated elderly people should avoid contact with their grandchildren after a cluster of coronavirus cases was discovered in four local schools.

Officials in Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) are signaling a move away from describing dangerous encounters between sharks and humans as “attacks,” according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

A Chinese developer has allegedly taken over Keswick, a small Australian island off the country’s northeast coast. After purchasing the islet on a 96-year lease in 2019, local residents said this week that the company, China Bloom, has essentially forced them off the island.

Boeing said on Monday it will design and develop military aircraft, including unmanned vehicles, in Australia — the first time in its 100 year history it has done so outside the United States.

Human body parts named after “men, kings and gods” have been deemed irrelevant and misogynistic by some Australian doctors who no longer seek to salute the ideas of dead, male anatomists.

As the coronavirus lockdown eases across Australia, one brewer decided Wednesday the best way to get things moving again in the outback was to send free beer for pubs to disperse amongst their parched patrons. Lots of it.

The increasingly unwatchable and slavishly woke BBC plumbed new depths last night. It gave a prime time slot to a piece of environmental propaganda so blatant, shameless, and dishonest it might just as well have been a political broadcast on behalf of Extinction Rebellion.

A mother in the Australian state of Queensland who took her two daughters to Somalia for genital mutilation has been warned she faces four years in prison for her crime.

An Australian professor has been fired for telling the truth about the Great Barrier Reef: that it’s not being destroyed by man-made climate change and that the “science” claiming otherwise is bunk.

An Australian Professor of Physics is suing his university, which is trying to gag him from telling the truth about the “dying” Great Barrier Reef.

Nigel Farage MEP has slammed attempts to “overturn” and “frustrate” Brexit, whilst attacking the Irish premier for putting the interest of the European Union (EU) above those of his people.

Alarmist scientists have found a terrifying new ‘ climate change’ threat: mutant transgender turtles.

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is not being killed off because of “global warming” or any other allegedly man-made non-problem, the people who know the area best have confirmed. According to local newspaper The Courier-Mail [paywalled] Teams of divers in a joint two-week

The police in Queensland, Australia, confiscated an air-powered T-shirt launcher from the Townsville Crocodiles, an Australian pro-basketball team, by claiming the popular device is a “category B weapon” that must be registered with the government.

Shocking video has emerged of the moment a women stubbed out her cigarette on a female reporters face outside Caboolture Magistrates Court in Queensland, Australia. Steeve Jane Kennedy was being charged for the murder of a young father – thought to be

The University of Western Australia has caved in to green activists and cancelled a planned $4 million Consensus Centre because of its associations with Skeptical Environmentalist author Bjorn Lomborg. Blond, gay, impeccably left wing and a former member of Greenpeace,