A 14-year-old girl who says she and her friends were assaulted and robbed at a Gold Coast train station claims they were ignored by fellow passengers when they asked for help.
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Nephew charged over murder of restaurant owner outside family home
The 21-year-old man is charged by detectives investigating the murder of Abdul Basith Mohammed, who was stabbed outside his Kuraby home on Brisbane’s south in 2017.
Hanson's 'terrible' cash-for-cane-toads idea won't work, experts say
Pauline Hanson wants you to collect cane toads for 10c to stop their spread, but ecologists say it’s an old idea that ignores the birds and the bees — with the pests mating faster than they can be collected.
Sri Lanka to get more time with pink ball than Australia ahead of day-night Test
In more scheduling frustration for Australia, Sri Lanka will get more practice with a pink ball than the host’s players — who haven’t played with one since the 2017-18 Ashes — ahead of the Brisbane Test under lights later this month.
The Brisbane salesman who plays Vladimir Putin in China's propaganda films
Tom Shanahan played an American pilot five times — despite his Australian accent — before scoring the role of Vladimir Putin. He’s one of many western actors filling roles in China’s growing propaganda movie industry
'It's a bit of a thrill': Woman sells $50 tickets to raffle off her seaside coffee caravan business
A barista comes up with an innovative way of selling her idyllic business on Queensland’s Capricorn Coast — a custom-made coffee caravan named Ruby — that will see the new owner pick it up for just $50.
Anning billed taxpayers thousands for flights to another right-wing rally
Controversial Queensland senator Fraser Anning charged taxpayers more than $2,500 to attend a right-wing rally last year, as calls condemning his decision to attend a protest in Melbourne on the weekend continue to build.
Rare giant bluebottle could be putting people in hospital, expert warns
An Australian stinger expert says a rare, giant bluebottle with multiple tentacles and a particularly nasty sting could be causing a spate of emergency department presentations in Queensland.
Another cyclonic deluge to hit northern Queensland as tropical low nears coast
The SES is urging northern Queensland residents to get ready for more heavy rain as a tropical low approaches coastal communities, but says rescue crews are prepared for the deluge.
Crawler lightning: tentacles of light flash across the sky
Check out this amazing imagery of lightning reaching out across the sky on the weekend. What causes these spectacular strikes?