The 501st Legion’s Redback Garrison are Queensland-based Star Wars fans, who dedicate their weekends to helping charities. Saturday’s parade through Queen Street in support of kidney health was a cause close to many of the volunteers’ hearts.
Category: Updates from Brisbane Times – Queensland
Child rape accused extradited to Queensland
Man to face court over allegations of assaults between 2001 and 2011.
Black lung: Coal miners' health database to be evaluated by independent party
Data from the health records of thousands of Queensland coal miners will be reviewed, with a new project put out to tender this week.
Motorcyclist fighting for life after crash
A motorbike rider is fighting for his life following a crash in central Queensland.
A day in the life of Tangalooma's existential bird
One of the first faces to meet visitors as they step off the ferry at Tangalooma is Harry, a white-faced heron going through an identity crisis.
Great Barrier Reef plan must move faster: UNESCO
Water quality not improving enough.
Four people attacked at Wynnum hotel, teen assisting police
Two men, 23 and 68, taken to hospital with head injuries.
Tech tinkerers across Queensland to get half a million dollars to set up hackerspaces
In Eagle Farm, Australia’s oldest hackerspace caters to everything from blacksmithing, cosplay, 3D printing, electronics, metal working and woodworking.
Survivors welcome Whiskey Au Go Go probe
Fifteen people were killed in infamous 1973 nightclub blaze.
Nephew of convicted Whiskey Au Go Go killer says thugs threatened grandma to 'back off'
The nephew of one of the men convicted of Brisbane’s Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing wants to give evidence at the new inquest into the deaths of the 15 people.