Abortion service providers are left with chartering private flights to regional Queensland, saying infrequent schedules and short-notice cancellations during the COVID-19 pandemic make flying commercial untenable.

Service upgrades rolling out this week aim to plug a hole in Telstra's network for regional, remote, and rural customers who do not receive emergency service alerts.

Anyone who isn't eligible for the government-funded flu vaccine has been left waiting for the jab in north-west Queensland.

Six to midnight Friday night at the Bridgetown Blues. Go see bands if you get the chance.

Perth's Fringe World is brimming with art entrepreneurs, says 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.

The October long week was a weekend of festivals. It had me zooming from Tyagarah for the Boomerang indigenous arts festival, on to Nimbin for a spot of basketweaving at the Weave and Mend Festival and then out to Mullumbimby for the Circus Festival on Sunday. And I still didn't make it down to Ballina for their Country Music Festival.

12 hostages, 24 hours, 1 Partridge!

This quietly powerful examination of one man's life is a sad indictment on a modern nation struggling to reconcile with the customs and culture of the original custodians.

Clever dialogue and big British comedy talent make this compulsory viewing especially for radio lovers.

The inspirational true story of Robyn Davidson's journey through the desert.

Is it madness? Is it purgatory? Or is it just male mid-life crisis? Whatever it is it is a musical descent into perdition.

A small town with very dark secrets where racism and mistrust are the order of the day.

Abner Bradley, Alirio Zavarce, Ben Wishart, Damien Turbin, Duncan Luke, Kym Mackenzie, Ryan Rowland, Richard Samai

The girl is good. Very good.

Matt Clifton grew up with a passion for music, but his small-town upbringing meant live music events were few and far between, so he brought one home.

Rivalry keeps sport interesting. But what happens when one team has dominated the same competition for 40 consecutive years?

Business owners at Ivanhoe in outback NSW are staring down closure if a plan to shut the jail goes ahead, and say the jail inmates make a huge contribution to the community.

Utes assemble at the Deni Ute Muster in western NSW

Saeed Maasarwe said his family is not motivated by revenge over the rape and murder of his daughter Aiia Maasarwe, as he remembered her as a positive woman who wanted to help everybody.

An array of Pacific Island communities converged on the Mackay Botanical Gardens last weekend to take part in the region's first Pasifika Festival. The event highlighted Mackay's diverse cultures by showcasing traditional artwork, food and performances.

Celebrities like Pink and touring shows like Cirque du Soleil are motivating people to take up the art of aerial acrobatics. Kayleigh McMullen has opened up her own school in Coolum on the Sunshine Coast and says it is attracting people of all ages.

The sound of chatter and wind instruments being blown at different times fills the room at the Launceston College music centre as the band members warm up for rehearsals.

Tulips, daffodils, tulips and more tulips. You know you're at the Nannup Flower and Garden Festival in August when there are tulips everywhere

The Tweed Valley Banana Festival will crown its 60th queen this year.

Spring is in the air in Newcastle, with the season's racing carnival officially launched.

The Swell Sculpture Festival is on again and Currumbin Beach is coming alive with colour, movement and thought-provoking works of art.

Hundreds of people descended on Rollingstone in north Queensland this weekend to celebrate the humble pineapple. Among them were dozens of international visitors who organisers hope will spread the word of the Rollingstone Pineapple Festival around the world.

Every year at the start of spring the streets of Port Pirie are filled with the colour, sounds and sights of a festival with its roots in a medieval Italian fishing community.

Sixth generation dairy farmers in Yandoit in central Victoria's bushland stick to what they know and love.

Gymnastics clubs from around the country converge in Bendigo for the National Club Championships.

When it comes to fashions on the field, it helps to have a head start.

Step inside one of the beautiful open gardens on show during the Renmark Rose Festival. Artemis and Harry Ppiros are Greek immigrants who kept their green thumbs busy after retiring from their Riverland fruit block.

From live music, dumpling demonstrations and kite making workshops for kids, to self-defence lessons, bird watching, contemporary dance performances and a bamboo lantern parade, there'll be something for everyone at BrisAsia this year! Delight your senses with 80 events jam packed into three weeks from January 27 - February 19 across the city.

With Australia's music festivals cancelled one after another as the coronavirus crisis unfolded, there was finally some good news yesterday for local music lovers.

Alison Whitehead ran up and down a local hill until she reached the equivalent elevation of Mount Everest's peak

The Hollywood star and avid pilot visits the Albion Park aircraft museum where he will donate his Boeing 707.

Scientist Richard Connor has discovered that Monkey Mia's dolphins have the most complex non-human society on the planet.

Future Tense a look at how we might be revealing more private details online than we think and the value in the information that’s being mined - and you’ll hear how you could protect your data by actually revealing more than you already are.

Railton is full of topiary with hedges cleverly clipped into animals, words and objects but there are hopes it can reinvent itself and boost its economy like the north-east town of Derby on the back of newly-opened mountain bike tracks.

The Korean film Parasite, about a lower-class family who con their way into a wealthy household, wins in a year dominated by social issues.

A former finance officer for the Summernats car festival, who stole thousands of dollars from the business to fuel a drug habit, avoids prison time.

South Australia's Opposition says it will reverse the State Government's plan to privatise Adelaide's train and tram services if elected in 2022.

Convicted serial killer Ivan Milat gets into a van and returns to prison after receiving cancer treatment at hospital.

Hidden in outback scrubland lies a once legendary racetrack, where speed records were broken, sometimes even in the nude.

The Pyrenees Advocate will release a new weekly paper from May 1 to fill the void left in Ararat by the closure of the 163-year-old Advertiser.

Victoria as recorded six new cases of coronavirus overnight, with a new cluster at a psychiatric facility.