Running 500 kilometres no problem. Completing a bush course with 1,000 obstacles sign her up. Stopping to breastfeed in between dragging tyres and crossing creeks Jessica Ehrlich is your woman. The mother of three triumphs over what may be the world's longest solo obstacle course.

The Indigenous owners of Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island, are frustrated by delays in their claim for compensation from the Queensland Government.

The family of a boy with ADHD that sometimes causes him to "bite, punch" and "kick" is suing Education Queensland for alleged discrimination by teachers who restrained him when he became "disruptive" and "aggressive".

The deaths of a 70-year-old man and his son, aged 30, after their boat flipped on a dam west of Bundaberg on Friday evening has hit the community hard, a mayor says, as she urges families to "embrace each other" on Father's Day.

The corporate regulator is taking the Bank of Queensland (BOQ) and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank to court for imposing "unfair" contract terms on their small business customers.

SunWater is about to shed the equivalent of 32,000 Olympic pools of water from Bundaberg's Paradise Dam, which is less than 20 years old so what went wrong?

An American Staffordshire Terrier that was pepper-sprayed, tasered and shot by police after it attacked a courier, will have its leg amputated. The owner says the courier company was told not to enter the property and came through a locked gate.

At first glance, the secluded camp looks like a lost city. Through the scrub are caravans, tents, vans and little dorms, where a group of kids are switching off technology and learning about Indigenous culture.

A Queensland great grandmother recalls the challenges of life on the land as she celebrates a century in the rural town of Biggenden.

A controversial study plays down the risk of heart disease and cancer from eating red meat, infuriating global health professionals.

Scientists are stunned by the discovery of the well-preserved body of an 18,000-year-old puppy in far-eastern Russian Siberia, but experts are unsure whether it was a dog or a wolf.

Their parents and grandparents were forcibly removed from their home, but now the Woppaburra people have returned to the Keppel Islands as partners in a project that could help heal the Great Barrier Reef in the future.

That warm, earthy scent when it rains for the first time after an extended dry spell has a name. As Dr Karl explains, there's a whole science behind it.

A genus of Queensland marsupial lion that, in its heyday, would have had other animals "shaking in their boots", is reclassified to be entirely new.

The coronavirus has overshadowed an unprecedented political and legal crisis that has left Israel without a government and with an un-elected prime minister who is now ruling by decree.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the ABC's Jakarta correspondent to evacuate.

Clark Whelton survived the global flu pandemic in 1957 and is now in his 80s living through the coronavirus pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced museums and other public institutions to shut their doors and go digital.

How will television productions and theatres survive the C-19 lockdown? 

Emmah Money lives with the lung disease Cystic Fibrosis so she has to be especially careful to avoid coronavirus

Stories about pandemics and the way humans respond to them have a long history in Western literature.

How a little-known polio epidemic in Denmark led to the birth of the intensive care unit and the remarkable feat of heath care ingenuity that saved hundreds of lives.

Children across the country begin their Term 2 studies with online schooling at home. How long will it last? And, what does face-to-face teaching mean when kids finally start arriving back at the school?

The government of Poland wants to go ahead with a presidential election conducted entirely by postal vote, on May 10, despite widespread opposition and public health concerns.

A lawyer for the family of murdered Mackay woman Shandee Blackburn tells an inquest into her death the evidence points to the victim's ex-boyfriend.

Police say they've found a man reported missing on Sunday morning after launching a search and public appeal for him at Illawong Beach, South Mackay.

An elderly man is badly injured after being attacked by a goanna in north Queensland, but his dog survives, which his wife says is "the best news I've heard all day".

A north Queensland man has helped to create a club for car lovers with a disability or mental illness the kind of program he wished was around 14 years ago, when he attempted suicide.

The West Coast Eagles will review the way they manage drug-testing procedures in the wake of the scandal engulfing forward Willie Rioli.

The Landgate deal represents a sizeable change in position by WA Labor, a party that spent years fighting tooth and nail against privatisations but just locked in one of the state's biggest-ever deals with the private sector, writes Jacob Kagi.

A career criminal who was banned for life from driving is jailed for crashing a stolen car into a family's van, ploughing it into a Woolworths truck and claiming the life of a five-year-old boy and injuring six of his relatives.

The husband of a woman found dead at a Nollamara home by family members is charged with murdering his wife sometime between Wednesday and Saturday last week.

Perth's flagship convention centre at the heart of the CBD is slowly sinking into the Swan River, developing undulating "speed bumps" in a carpark at the base of the structure that is creating hazards for cars and people.