Pinched, poked and prodded — that’s what one Brisbane man regularly volunteers for, offering up his body in the service of medical research.
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Pair used drone in bid to fly drugs and phones into prison
A man and a woman found with a drone near Brisbane’s Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre attempting to fly drugs and mobile phones into the prison grounds are sentenced to prison themselves.
Huge losses loom for Australian sugar producers amid India subsidy challenge
With farmers and sugar millers facing financial ruin, the Australian Government is pursuing India over export subsidies that have led to a plunge in global sugar prices.
'I killed a child and I don't want to live anymore': Elderly driver who hit 6yo Indie Armstrong dies
A remorseful Miriam Grace Paton, 86, dies in hospital after refusing treatment months after reversing her car into six-year-old Indie and her family at a Sunshine Coast shopping centre.
Weather nerds seize on new app — 'a quantum leap' for understanding extreme events
The new WeatheX app aims to get citizen scientists to report and photograph wild weather in a bid to improve the understanding and forecasting of severe weather events.
'Meteoric fall from grace': Former Olympic diver sentenced on stealing charges
Former Olympic diver and gold medallist Chantelle Newbery pleads guilty to a string of charges, including stealing, in what her lawyer describes as a “meteoric fall from grace”.
Reward offered over former Russian KGB policeman's cold case murder
Police post a $250,000 reward to help solve the murder of former Russian KGB policeman Gennadi Bernovski, who was shot on Queensland’s Gold Coast almost 20 years ago.
Tiger shark circles kayaker after knocking him off board
A four-metre tiger shark circles a “frantic” kayaker after knocking him off his board at Moffat Beach on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast this morning.
'I felt fobbed off': Woman called triple zero hours before police say they learned of fatal crash
Police said it took 11 hours for a truck accident south of Brisbane to be reported but a woman who lives nearby said she saw the wreckage and called triple zero hours earlier and will be making an official complaint.
QSuper members up to $90,000 worse off over 'undetected administrative errors'
About 100 members of one of the country’s largest superannuation funds are asked to pay back tens of thousands of dollars after errors left accounts incorrect for years.