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Greyhound suspends bus service from Sydney to Brisbane to stop backpackers transmitting coronavirus

The decision comes after residents in Byron Bay lobbied to have the buses stop to make sure COVID-19 was not transmitted to regional areas.




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Japanese restaurant in Brisbane comes under fire for its 'racist' takeaway menu 

Nobunaga Yakitori in Brisbane launched the new takeaway menu this week after the government banned dine-in service to slow the spread of the coronavirus.




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Shopping 'angels' deliver groceries to those most in need during coronavirus lockdown 

From their Gold Coast homes, national co-founders of the group, Julian Corvin and Tara O'Kane, are connecting people in need with those offering to do grocery shopping.




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You can now have ONE KILO brie cheese wheels filled with spaghetti delivered to your front door

Australian restaurant Salt Meats Cheese is now delivering their one kilogram of brie cheese pasta to customers at home in isolation. The meal is priced at $39 and serves two people.




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House Rules fans lust over muscular contestant Rhys and call for his 'shirt to come off' 

House Rules: High Stakes premiered on Monday night and it's not the impressive size of the building that has viewers in a tizz, but it's the strapping contestants. 




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Woman, 44, reveals hilarious map her dad drew her of the fruit section of his supermarket

ABC presenter Sarah Kanowski, 44, from Brisbane, Australia, went viral when she revealed how her parents finally let her do their grocery shopping as they fall into the vulnerable category.




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Father found guilty of raping his seven-year-old daughter WINS appeal

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Court of Appeal in Brisbane there had been a miscarriage of justice because an interpreter was not present throughout his trial.




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Qld Man shot dead after setting himself on fire McDonald's doused a woman in petrol before fleeing

Emergency services rushed to a home in Sunnybank Hills, in Brisbane's south on Monday night, after receiving reports of a domestic violence incident.




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The makeup hack that involves applying setting spray AND powder before you put on your foundation

A makeup artist has tested out a viral trend of putting setting spray and powder on your face before foundation in a 'backwards' move that fans are saying 'helps increase the coverage'.




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Carly and Andrew quit House Rules after discovering they weren't guaranteed a free house renovation

Fans have slammed Carly and Andrew for abruptly quitting House Rules: High Stakes once they discovered they weren't guaranteed to get a free home renovation. 




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Carjacker on the run after stealing pregnant mother's car and fleeing with son in the backseat 

The mother, 31, was parked at the corner of Brightview Road and Grove Street in Glenore Grove, Queensland, at 6am on Tuesday when the incident happened.




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Terrifying moment 'human fireball' shot dead by police after setting himself alight near McDonald's

WARNING: Graphic footage has emerged of the horrifying moment a man was shot dead by police after he allegedly doused himself in fuel in a McDonald's car park south of Brisbane.




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Mother creates a rotating 'sushi train' in her own HOME using a children's Christmas train set 

Vicki Thomas brought the magic of her favourite Japanese conveyor belt restaurant into her Brisbane home by arranging boxes of sushi on top of a children's train set.




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Sexual sadist who strangled a woman to death is set to be released after taking anti-sex drive drugs

Mark Richard Lawrence, now 58, stalked 29-year-old Julia Ann Muirhead, strangled her with a tea towel and slit her throat in Brisbane on Boxing Day in 1983.




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Peter Dutton warns Australians coronavirus is very serious after testing positive

The Home Affairs Minister tested positive to the virus on March 13 and was admitted to hospital in Brisbane that night.




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Moment young couple forced to push on door to keep landlord out - claiming she harassed them

Queensland couple Sam Henningsen and Julie Guillet say they were forced to move apartments after a rental dispute with their landlord ended with them having to barricade their doors.




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Qantas passenger shares photo of packed plane en route to Brisbane 2133186

The Qantas passenger claimed he was flying from Townsville to Brisbane on Monday afternoon on a plane crammed with travellers.




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IGA supermarket in Brighton, Queensland defends decision to sell toilet paper in four packs

Kerry Sheaff owns the store in Brighton in northern Brisbane that has been running low on supply amid the outbreak of coronavirus.




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Queensland education minister says Schoolies may be CANCELLED because of COVID-19

Ms Grace spoke on Brisbane's Hit105 radio on Tuesday morning and said the annual party will be subject to the advice of experts closer to the date.




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Woman who accused MP of inappropriate behaviour towards her teenage daughter apologises

Whitsunday MP Jason Costigan sued Heather McKeown for $350,000 in the Brisbane District Court on January 23.




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Virgin Australia engineer fears for his family's future if embattled airline collapses 

Virgin Australia fleet engineer and Brisbane dad Tony Hill believes he'll struggle to find another job in Australia's embattled aviation industry if the airline can't survive the coronavirus crisis.




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Darling Downs Zoo could be forced to close for good due to coronavirus lockdown 

Darling Downs Zoo, south-west of Brisbane in Queensland, is closed temporarily due to the pandemic.




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Passenger on a packed Qantas flight from Sydney to Brisbane was infected with coronavirus

Queensland Health warned other passengers of the diagnosis by text and then a phone call before directing them to self-quarantine in an email on Thursday.




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Gorden Tallis calls out Darius Boyd for whinging over potentially relocating for the NRL season

The code are looking into hosting the entire roster of teams in Sydney for the competition due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, with many players from outside clubs complaining about potentially relocating.




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Qantas scraps the middle seat after damning photo of a packed flight during the coronavirus crisis

The airline announced the changes after a photo surfaced of a packed plane flying from Townsville in far north Queensland to Brisbane last Monday.




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Coles worker proposed to by her boyfriend over the microphone in front of panic-buyers 

Sam Sargaison confessed his love for girlfriend Tegan Mangan while she was working at Coles Beenleigh, south of Brisbane, over the store's speaker system.




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Brisbane mother is slammed for trying to sell her massive stash of toilet paper 

The Brisbane woman has 21 packs of toilet paper, each with 18 rolls for sale online.  She's selling a pack of Quilton toilet paper for $20 - double the supermarket price.




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Channel Ten's MasterChef takes a serious tumble in the ratings

Channel Ten's revamped MasterChef suffered a slight ratings tumble on Monday night, failing to gain more than one million viewers. 




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Brave woman, 24, set alight, raped and tortured says strangers 'look at her like she's a monster'

Nicholas John Crilley , 34, subjected the then-21-year-old to 'physical, psychological and sadistic violence' over 23 days in June 2017 at his townhouse in Bulimba, Brisbane.




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West Ham's pre-season tour of Australia set for July CANCELLED due to the coronavirus pandemic

West Ham have announced that their planned pre-season tournament in Australia, which was also due to feature Crystal Palace, has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.




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Polish nanny, 24, who was brutally raped and bashed in a park 'killed herself'

The 24-year-old nanny died three months after being violently attacked by Travis Alexander Manwarring, 31, in Brisbane in November 2016, prosecutor Steve Kissick said.




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The list of high-risk workers that could cause a second wave of COVID-19 if they don't get tested

Brisbane Dr Evan Jones said staff in high risk working environments should be tested immediately to prevent another spike in COVID-19 cases.




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Sunshine Coast Great grandfather to fund coronavirus vaccine by selling lavish beachside penthouse

Research into coronavirus treatments has been boosted by an unlikely benefactor - an 82-year-old great-grandfather who is selling his multi-million dollar beachside penthouse.




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Queensland couple allegedly robbed at knifepoint by teenagers during Anzac Day dawn service

A 62-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman allegedly had their phones and green Toyota Camry stolen by four teenagers on Saturday morning at their home in Rangeville, Queensland.




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Missing 13-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes nearly a month ago and hasn't been seen since

The 13-year-old was last seen running from a home on Yugumbri Cresent in Logan, south of Brisbane, at midday on April 1.




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Real estate guru says property investors should buy their next house now

A real estate guru has shared his tips on where to buy property during the COVID-19 crisis, urging investors to act now before prices rise again after the pandemic.




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Steve Irwin's 'hot niece' Rebecca Lobie flaunts her ample assets in a racy swimsuit

Rebecca Lobie has hunkered down at her Queensland home amid the coronavirus pandemic.




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Big W store is forced to close as coronavirus crisis hits retail

The store, which employed 70 people locally in Brisbane, had 'underperformed for some time', bosses said.




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Qantas passengers urged to seek health advice after case of coronavirus confirmed on board

Passengers who travelled on a Qantas flight from Melbourne to Brisbane last week have been told to seek health advice after a traveller on board tested positive for coronavirus. 




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Nicholas Crilley's housemate Jeromy Lee Harris charged with being an accessory to torture

The housemate of a man who raped, beat and lit a woman on fire over 23 days is behind bars himself accused of being an accessory to torture.




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Brisbane father-of-two had melanoma removed from year after doctor told him it was 'nothing serious'

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT -Rob Lindsay, 51, from Brisbane, noticed a small pink patch on the top of his right ear in September 2019 but claims his GP told him it was 'nothing serious'.




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Married At First Sight's Mishel Karen 'embarrassed' over airbrush scandal

Mishel Karen has finally explained the story behind a heavily airbrushed photo she posted to Instagram last week.




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Heartbroken miner who rushed home from Australia to see his dying wife denied chance to say goodbye

Bernie Ryan flew back to the country on Sunday from his job as a mining contractor in Brisbane after hearing his wife's cancer had aggressively returned and she had only hours to live.




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NAB predicts double-digit falls in Sydney and Melbourne house prices

National Australia Bank forecasts plunges of 10 to 15 per cent in house and apartment prices because of coronavirus. Sydney and Melbourne weren't the only cities expected to be hit.




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Coles slammed over a photo showing women failing to social distance while using self-serve checkout

The image, taken at a Coles in Morayfield, 44km north of Brisbane, showed two women standing at the same self-serve checkout just before 3.30pm on Tuesday.




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Pound rises against Dollar as Boris Johnson gives Tory conference speech

Shortly after Boris Johnson's speech in Manchester today, the Pound shot up against the US Dollar from 1.2254 at 12.41pm to 1.2296 at 12.53pm.




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Boris Johnson's Brexit envoy arrives in Brussels to hand over UK plan

The legal text of Boris Johnson's plan was handed over along with a letter to commission president Jean-Claude Juncker urging him to accept a 'reasonable compromise'.




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EU politicians give withering assessment of Boris Johnson's backstop solution

Boris Johnson already appears to be fighting a losing battle after EU leaders reacted with dismay at his solution to the Irish backstop.




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EU sets MIDNIGHT tonight as deadline for a Brexit deal

EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier is said to have briefed ministers that the latest plans put forward by the UK are 'not enough'.




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Tories begging Brexit Party candidates NOT to stand in their seats, chairman of Farage's party says

There have been calls from some Brexiteers for an informal electoral 'pact' between Nigel Farage's party and the Tories. Downing Street has so far rejected the idea.