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Ben Wall of Workboats Northern Australia says the Darwin Port Authority asked him to investigate reports of a floating steer near South Shell Island around 10am yesterday. He says his crew found the steer, exhausted and close to drowning, swimming...

A proposal to convert a former Gold Coast arts dormitory for women into a repository for human ashes is apparently dead. Facing overwhelming opposition from neighbors, developers withdrew their offer to buy the landmark Three Arts Club building and turn...

Queensland's second biggest ever stony meteorite. Tom King, 53, was caretaker at Rywanda Plainview, about 70km south of Cunnamulla, when he discovered the 25kg stony meteorite while riding his motorbike. Seven months later he decided to fetch the rock, with...

Surfers Paradise and Main Beach on the Gold Coast this afternoon. The man, believed to be aged in his 20s, had only just paddled out at Narrowneck about 12.30pm when he got into difficulties. Lifeguards attempted to revive him and...

Prosecutor Dennis Kinsella told the court 40-year-old Sialaoa Faolua fell out with 39-year-old Hay Saka after a drunken confrontation in December 2007. Faolua went to Mr Saka's Carole Park home two weeks later armed with a machete and attacked Mr...

Andrew Garrett had been due to go on trial in the District Court on eight counts of dishonest dealings with documents. Prosecutors dropped seven charges and he pleaded guilty to the remaining count, allegedly involving a benefit of $5,000. It...

A former government business manager says Aboriginal people in parts of Central Australia are still living in car bodies and humpies. Business managers were placed in Aboriginal communities under the federal intervention in the Northern Territory to coordinate and manage...

Alfred “Uncle Boydie” Turner speaks at the UIA's AGM in Melbourne on November 26. William Cooper’s grandson, Alfred “Uncle Boydie” Turner, was the guest speaker at the UIA’s AGM in Melbourne on November 26. Cooper, of Yorta Yorta descent, spent...

The District Court heard Huy Xuan Le, 31, had been out with a group of friends at the Cargo nightclub in Hindley Street in 2005. Chief Judge Terry Worthington heard there was tension between Le's group and another, which spilled...