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Until last year Queensland was clearing about 400,000 hectares of bush a year, the highest rate of clearing in the developed world. But that all came to an end when the Beattie government ...
An ABC investigation has reviewed Queensland's flood maps, emergency zones, changes to town planning, and property records to examine how natural disasters are impacting the housing crisis.
QUEENSLAND planning begins a radical revolution today with the release of the most detailed flood plain map in the state's history.
But Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has now committed to the town's survival It would see its almost 700-strong population reduced to about 200 over the next five to six years.
Queensland has become the stronghold of Australian cricket. Once regarded as a backwater and admired chiefly for its annual and doomed dalliance with success, the banana state has transformed ...
So he told them, forcefully. Until there was a coalition of Nationals and Liberals at state level in Queensland, the turf war between the parties would continue.
Thousands of health staff in Queensland could head back to work with the state government expected to announce Covid-19 vaccine mandates in the healthcare sector will be scrapped.
A map of Queensland, Australia, shows a number of fires burning throughout the state. Queensland Rural Fire Service Wassing called the declaration "vital" in preventing brushfires from breaking out.
A DRAMATIC decline in smoking rates has coincided with the introduction of plain-packaging laws.The daily smoking rate plunged from 15.1 per cent to 12.8 per cent between 2010 and 2013, according ...
THE state government's planned $940 million Kawana hospital would be built on land "designed as flood plain", and council officers had been instructed to keep crucial details secret.
An ABC investigation has reviewed Queensland's flood maps, emergency zones, changes to town planning, and property records to examine how natural disasters are impacting the housing crisis.