Floodwaters more than 50 kilometres wide came through Queensland's Channel Country earlier this year, but the extended weather forecast is not promising a return to average rainfalls.

Governor Hutchinson's May 4 directives on the re-opening of indoor and outdoor venues indicate closures will be lifted on May 18, but that's not what the event calendar at Fort Smith's Temple Live says.

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The Racing Commission had a long and open discussion but again cleared the Cherokee Nation's belated application for a casino permit in Pope County. A Mississippi casino operator says it will sue if the Cherokees win the permit.

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Two West Australian pig farmers involved in the smuggling of Danish pig semen hidden in shampoo bottles are jailed to three and two years' jail respectively.

Surfing WA's Mark Lane is leading a growing charge of West Australian sporting organisations fighting off unhealthy sponsorships deals in sports.

In Jennifer Kent's award-winning follow-up to the Babadook, a young convict woman teams up with a young Aboriginal man for revenge in 19th century Tasmania.

Tasmania's east coast is experiencing some of its driest conditions on record, but in the west there has been record high winter rainfall. How can the weather vary so much in such a small state?

Most beef you eat comes from around two-year-old cattle, but some farmers are singing the praises of dry-aged beef from what they call "vintage" cows.

Opposition Leader Rebecca White vows to ditch the Greens as party faithful meet in Burnie for Labor's first Tasmanian gathering since suffering a bruising federal election defeat.

Alice says the tobacco tax increase won't act as an incentive to break the addiction because smoking already has a "hold" on her life.

More than 170 little penguins have been mauled to death by dogs in Tasmania in the past year. Experts say the attacks are leaving the state's population in a "tenuous" position.

A new witness comes forward in the 50-year-old cold case of Tasmanian woman Lucille Butterworth, telling police he overheard a conversation about her body being dumped.

Tourists flock to this tulip farm to see the flowers, but it is under the ground where the serious farming is happening.

The Kid with a Bike is a spare film, with only two main characters and runs for only 88 minutes, but by the end we are so tense from watching the title character, Cyril (Thomas Doret), and his near disastrous progress through the film that when my mother and I have a minor drama in the car park that we become almost hysterical with laughter, so tightly wound has the story made us.

The Swedish bestseller makes its English-language film debut in a stylish and impressive work from David Fincher.

Michelle Williams is touching as the broken doll of a woman and Eddie Redmayne quintessentially boyish as Colin. But it all just doesn't ring true. So the myth remains intact.

Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, Megan Fox

There are now only two active cases in the state, the State Government announces, but border restrictions will stay in place although travel to regional areas may be reopened.

Jenny Han finds herself in the thick of country life, despite social distancing, after moving from the city to kickstart her career.

Despite not being able to help his niece as she battled aplastic anaemia, Daniel Roberts stayed on the bone marrow donor list, and just two years later he was reduced to tears when he got the call.

An Australian medicinal cannabis company is working to address a global shortage of pharmaceutical-grade product, reducing cost and improving access at the same time.

Eden Camac, who has a complex disability, broke both hips and his left leg while at a supported accommodation facility. An ambulance was not called until 10 hours after the incident and his family wants to know what went wrong.

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".

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.

Tourists are warned to check the credentials of whale-watching companies as the Maritime Safety Authority investigates reports a boat operated without a licence.

A regional Victorian town will soon house one of the world's largest medicinal cannabis production facilities, amid a push to drive patients away from the thriving black market.

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.

AA meetings around Australia are moving from the traditional in-person meetings to online, filling the need for people with alcoholism to find help from others.

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

Would you be willing to be infected with coronavirus if there was a chance of speeding up a vaccine? Thousands of young health people have put their hand up.

As more couples leave the decision to have children until later in life, or decide against having them at all, their parents are grappling with the prospect of missing out on the grandparent experience.

A 60-year-old Perth man is jailed for life for bashing his elderly retirement village neighbour to death with a hammer while in the throes of methamphetamine bender that had left him awake for more than a week.

Five people including a young toddler contract measles in the first significant WA outbreak in 20 years, with a New Zealand tourist blamed for bringing the highly contagious virus to the state.

The number of people infected with measles in Perth rises to eight in an outbreak West Australian health authorities believe was sparked by an infected visitor from New Zealand.