The American author and translator's memoir is a poignant exploration of language, sisterhood and overcoming personal tragedy.

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Appealing solo debut from the former Metronomy man.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced kinder students, and those in years Prep, One, 11 and 12 will go back to school from May 11.

Parliament is set to pass legislation introducing tough penalties for people or agencies who access data from the COVIDSafe app in violation of its stated purpose.

If your government failed to provide running water, electricity, roads, safety from gender violence, or other staples of everyday life, what would you do? In the Solomon Islands people are taking matters into their own hands, even schoolgirls. If their government can’t provide, they’ll try.

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.

The outback Queensland town of Barcaldine has officially set a new world record for the longest line of motorhomes.

When outback pioneering single mother Mary Emmott started rainfall records in 1914 she had no idea how important they would be.

Emus have once again mobbed the streets of Longreach in search of food and water. While some locals say the number of chicks is a good omen for the wet season, an expert says the birds simply "lay and hope for the best."

The first fall in the small town of Ilfracombe in Central West Queensland since 3mm was measured in March

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The mother of one of four men who died on a fishing trip on waters near Hobart says she is disappointed the investigating coroner did not recommend changes to Tasmania's marine safety legislation.

Tourism operators on one of Tasmania's breathtaking islands are riding a wave of untapped beauty and are reeling in visitors with locally grown produce.

Oddball might have been the movie star, but Tula the maremma is the real hero of Middle Island's famed penguin protection program, and she's retiring after almost a decade of service.

A man that suffered a shark attack at Norval Park, north of Bundaberg, has called for the State Government to consider a shark cull or implementing shark nets.

Industry figures say unstable weather, a lack of infrastructure investment and poor international prices are hampering sugar sector confidence as mills open for crushing.

Calculating the road toll is "extraordinarily complicated", according to Queensland police as loved ones say the confusion is compounding their grief following a horror few weeks on the state's roads.

Big business is set to be hit with hundreds of millions of dollars in extra taxes and royalties as the Palaszczuk Government seeks to tap the top end of town to deliver payroll tax relief to small- and medium-sized businesses, in the hope of boosting jobs particularly in regional Queensland.

A horror summer season has seen fruit and vegetable growers in Queensland go to extraordinary lengths to grow crops.

Australia watched with sadness earlier this year as cattle country in north-west Queensland and hundreds of thousands of cattle died. Four months later, in drought-and-flood ravaged Julia Creek, families are desperately trying to adapt to their new normal.

Queensland foreign-owned companies warn a new tax will put regional jobs at risk and challenge the viability of their businesses.

A former bank that was the birthplace of Mary Poppins creator P.L. Travers has been converted into a museum in Maryborough, Queensland, where it is hoped it will prove a drawcard for tourists.

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 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.

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.

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.

A community of just 600 people isolated in the Indian Ocean is being inundated with the world's plastic waste. It is now finding innovative ways to fight back.

Drug experts and welfare groups speak out against the Government's push to drug test welfare recipients, questioning why the bill has been revived despite "comprehensive" opposition from the medical profession.

School leavers celebrations have been canned on Western Australia's Rottnest Island this year, with thousands of graduates expected to flock to the state's South West instead.

The coral haven of the Houtman Abrolhos island chain off the coast of WA has been officially listed as a national park, with plans to protect the area and make it more accessible to tourists.

Port Beach's Coast pub and surf life saving rooms should be moved and some Rottnest Island holiday bungalows should be pushed back from the beach in the long term, a report into WA coastal erosion hotspots says.

Two men are charged with trying to smuggle more than a tonne of cocaine and ecstasy into WA, after their yacht hit a reef and they were found on an island in the Houtman Abrolhos allegedly hiding the drugs with seaweed.

The dog squad catches five teenage boys hiding in a shed, bringing to an end an alleged crime spree that included car theft, armed robbery and break-ins at two supermarkets and three service stations.

Jacinta Foulds's husband shares his grief just hours after the 35-year-old's death to warn others how suddenly influenza A can kill, saying: "I've lost my soul mate and the mother of my children. If you're sick, go to the doctor".

Outback journalist Jaimee-lee Prow is on the spot in the southern Queensland town of Muckadilla as fire guts the local pub.

A car carrying two adults and three children hit a tree and caught fire at Durong, about 90 kilometres north-west of Kingaroy this afternoon, with the driver believed to have swerved to avoid a kangaroo.

Car and house washing are off limits in Queensland's Southern Downs as residents are urged to use no more than 100 litres a day.