Qld

Queensland Dinosaur Week 2026 (4-10 May) will shine a spotlight on Hughenden and the Flinders Shire, celebrating the region’s extraordinary dinosaur heritage and its proud place in Australia’s palaeontological history. As the home of Queensland’s fossil emblem, the Muttaburrasaurus, Hughenden holds a special connection to one of Australia’s most iconic dinosaurs.

As the last of the smoke drifted from the Buddy’s Fire Burnout pad, the lights on Quay Street’s drag strip flicked green one final time, and cars were carefully loaded onto trailers, the curtain officially closed on a record-breaking Rare Spares and Repco Rockynats 06, which saw a staggering 65,000 people through the gates across the weekend.

Trevor Neale. The time was 2pm on the 25 April 1919 - Lieut. Robert Brown (Ret. AIF) marshalled the gathered groups at 53 Warwick Street, (now Historical Museum) for the Anzac Day march to the Fallen Soldiers Memorial via Forde, Drayton, Herbert and Warwick Streets. Main service was at 3pm ... This was the start of a 106 year association of the Salvation Army with Anzac Day in Allora.

An inaugural report from Australia's most comprehensive and detailed fire mapping database has found 2025 to be the second largest fire year in the past decade, driven by severe weather and storm-related ignitions. The North Australia and Rangelands Fire Information (NAFI) service, based out of Charles Darwin University (CDU) recently released its first – and from now annual – Fire Year Summary Report for 2025, detailing fire activity across Australia. 

With a rare combination of extensive oil reserves and local refining capabilities, the small Outback town of Eromanga (population under 50) is emerging as one of the strongest contenders to help ease Australia’s fuel supply issues onshore.

He should have been home in Tocumwal in NSW playing football or cricket with his mates but 14 years old James Charles Martin found himself in the deadly trenches of Gallipoli in 1915. What and why was a fourteen year old country boy doing in a man's war?

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Winter is normally the season that outback NSW towns look forward to most. The tourists arrive, the caravan parks fill up ... This year, the question being asked by operators from Broken Hill to White Cliffs to Menindee is whether that migration is actually going to happen.

The Allora Men’s Shed has done a magnificent job of giving new life to this old wool classing table. During the past month Graham Hickson has been the main man to work on this unusual project.

Scenic Rim Regional Council is appealing to Tamborine Mountain residents to stop feeding and interacting with wild dogs, which are becoming a problem to the local community. As well as being illegal under the Biosecurity Act 2014, feeding wild dogs and encouraging them into community spaces poses a threat to residents, their pets and other wildlife by increasing the risk of attacks.

The Walwa Recreation Reserve echoed to the sound of hoof beats on Monday when teams competed in the Maygar Memorial Trophy which showcases the expertise that mounted troops used in the Boer War and World Wars I and II.

Chosen to lead the mixed junior team at the national championships from the 22 through to 28 June this year, with a costly trip ahead of her, Piper Mortimer and her family are looking for sponsors to enable her to get there ... Piper's mum Leah Mortimer told On Our Selection News about how the sponsorship would be a two way street.

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A new national Faba Bean Breeding Program will provide growers with improved higher-yielding varieties of faba beans with better disease resistance, quality traits and adaptation across Australian growing regions. Australia is the world’s largest exporter of faba beans, supplying around one-third of global trade, with key markets including Egypt, the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia.

The Crisafulli Government is committed to unlocking productivity for Queenslanders with an inquiry into the impact of the Federal Government’s 2025 environmental legislation. Changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 have raised concerns with stakeholders about increased regulatory burden, compliance costs, uncertainty and delays. 

Allora’s picturesque trees in Herbert Street attracted this chattering of noisy but beautiful Rainbow Lorikeets to feast on the mass of seeds that drop onto the footpath for easy picking.

They may look cute and cuddly, but these highly trained sniffer dogs mean business. Fire ant odour detection dogs and their handlers were mobilised in the Lockyer Valley last month to search for the highly invasive pest.