The old saying goes ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’. It also keeps the apple grower happy! Fruit pickers have descended on Queensland’s Granite Belt for the annual apple harvest. For orchardist, cider maker, and all-round-apple-lover, David Sutton, it’s...
Posted February 28, 2014 13:03:00 Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss says the Federal Government’s $100 million blackspots program will not fix all of the country’s communications problems. Last year, the Commonwealth released a discussion paper relating to the mobile phone blackspots...
Posted February 27, 2014 13:41:05 Queensland’s Police Minister has hit back at union claims that mobile phone blackspots across regional Queensland are putting lives at risk. The United Firefighters Union, along with several Wide Bay mayors, want reception problems fixed with...
Posted February 26, 2014 15:07:07 The United Firefighters Union says mobile phone blackspots across Queensland need to be improved as a matter of urgency. Councils in the Wide Bay-Burnett region say broadband blackspots continue to be a major problem and have...
Inspirational. Fiercely determined. Courageous. Justin Yerbury was described by our viewers as many things when we first brought you his story. Now he’s back at work, continuing to search for a cure for the very disease that’s slowly taking his own...
By Ashleigh Stevenson Updated February 25, 2014 11:09:28 Scientists from the Queensland Museum have discovered two new species of goblin spiders on the state’s Darling Downs. Dr Barbara Baehr says her team discovered the Opopaea broadwater, also known as the jellybean...
Email Updated February 25, 2014 08:14:06 A former Queensland bishop says he was stunned to learn initial allegations of child sexual abuse at a Catholic primary school went unreported to police for 14 months.
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Dr Barbara Baehr from the Queensland Museum discovered Leichhardteus badius, or reddish brown swift spider, in the Bunya Mountains. “The swift spider looks a bit like an ant,” Dr Baehr says. “It’s about the size of an ant, runs...
By Chrissy Arthur Updated February 24, 2014 14:51:49 Map: Longreach 4730 More storm activity overnight in western Queensland has some drought-affected graziers smiling but many are still waiting for rain. The weather bureau says storms dumped 82 millimetres at Tambo, 59mm...
