It’s a fan-forced oven day in Mount Isa, the red dirt is baking and a slow clap is starting to echo in the rodeo arena.
Category: Updates from Brisbane Times – Queensland
A scientific approach to finding faces in skulls
There’s something daunting about taking a skull that’s thousands of years old, often smashed or degraded in key places, and turning it into a face.
NBN installation bungle left man without broadband for 96 days
A Queensland man is seeking compensation after spending almost 100 days stuck in broadband-less limbo thanks to a series of bungles connecting him to the National Broadband Network.
Ipswich candidates demand greater accountability
Candidates wanting to replace Paul Pisasale as mayor of Ipswich want travel expenses for the councillors and senior staff working at four Ipswich City Council-owned businesses to be made public.
Changes to make snorkelling safer after 10 Queensland deaths in six months
Snorkellers identified as being “at-risk” will have to wear flotation devices while diving at the Great Barrier Reef and other waterways as part of a raft of new safety measures.
'He's a battler': Two weeks in ICU, 70 days in hospital for bashed teenager
Day 16: Josh Waite wakes from a two-week-long induced coma. His injuries, a fractured skull and badly damaged brain, are so bad the 17-year-old’s parents have been warned he might not recognise them.
Ekka 2017: The weird, wonderful and downright scary
The Royal Queensland Show runs until August 20 at the Brisbane Showgrounds, with gates open from 9am and two fireworks displays nightly at 6pm and 7.40pm.
Premier slams Queensland Rail after passengers stuck on train for almost three hours
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is calling for Queensland Rail to apologise to every passenger left trapped on a train for almost three hours but stopped short of calling for heads to roll.
Two dead, one cut from wreckage after horror Logan crash
Two people have died and one person has been cut from the wreckage of their four-wheel-drive, after a three-car crash in Logan on Sunday morning.
Uber driver charged over refusing to release passenger
A driver has been charged with deprivation of liberty after he allegedly drove a woman across Brisbane against her will and refused to let her out of the car.