Tom Forbes
Father’s Day fishing trip costs man $6800 in border fines, costs
A Brisbane fisherman is likely to be out of pocket more than $6800 after driving into northern NSW to buy a fishing...
Dylan Voller spared jail for Commonwealth Games bomb threat
High profile former Northern Territory youth detainee, Dylan Voller, has pleaded guilty in a Gold Coast court to making a bomb hoax...
Silicosis epidemic draws federal government help as stonemason shortage strikes industry
The Egyptian pyramids and the Great Wall of China would not have been built without stonemasons, but finding a tradesman to simply...
Poachers target protected freshwater crayfish for BBQ hotplates and aquarium trade, locals says
Ecologists fear protected freshwater crayfish in south-east Queensland are being poached for food or sold as aquarium pets. The Lamington Spiny Crayfish...
Detectorists and treasure hunters flock to cyclone-damaged beaches in search of booty
Cyclone Oma stripped metres of sand from eastern Australian beaches when the system brushed past last month, but it also opened up...
Moon base ambitions a perfect platform for Australian industry, CSIRO says
Australia’s national science agency is calling on industry to take a giant leap forward to capitalise on NASA’s plan to build a...
Several Gold Coast students treated after suspected drug overdose
Ambulance crews have taken seven students to hospital after they took an unknown substance at a private northern Gold Coast school. Emergency...
Gold Coast residents angered by dunes being levelled
Southern Gold Coast residents are shocked and angry sand dunes are being bulldozed to make way for beach volleyball practice courts for...
Gold Coast police may be charged for failing to help unconscious student with fatal overdose
A Queensland coroner has found police acted “inappropriately and incompetently” when they failed to call an ambulance after finding an unconscious university...
Owls being abandoned at Currumbin Wildlife Hospital in large numbers
Wildlife carers have seen a 70 per cent increase in the number of orphaned Southern Boobook owls admitted to Currumbin Wildlife Hospital....