A major work by influential German avant-garde artist Joseph Beuys is back on display at the National Gallery, and is taking the space usually occupied by Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles.

Johannes Frerck was a friendly man who sold sausages and sauerkraut from his Darlinghurst shop he was also a staunch supporter of Adolf Hitler and branded a spy who threatened Australia's security.

A vintage FJ Holden panel van is commemorating the daring feats of newsreel crews in the 1940s and 50s when news was served at the movies.

The decades-old voices of people teaching and learning the Miriwoong language are preserved in a unique collection of magnetic strip cards.

Billionaire Clive Palmer is accused of faking entries in a green notebook in a bid to justify draining Queensland Nickel of millions of dollars for anything he wanted before it collapsed in 2016, a court is told.

A judge gives Clive Palmer a dressing-down for his absence during the Queensland Nickel trial, saying other people who represent themselves in court could not afford to hire lawyers and still show up every day.

A prominent French journalist and his television crew are charged with trespass after being arrested while filming protesters near the Abbot Point coal terminal in north Queensland.

Clive Palmer is admonished by Justice Debra Mullins over another delay in the Queensland Nickel trial, this time because his expert witness is in Brazil.

An agreement with a Chinese company to develop an export processing facility for north Queensland and Northern Territory beef has been signed with a local council.

Resources magnate Clive Palmer settles the majority of the $200 million lawsuit over the collapse of Queensland Nickel, including striking a deal with government-funded liquidators chasing millions in unpaid entitlements for refinery workers.

Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill says homelessness charities providing food and laundry services are "enabling people to live a lifestyle" without doing anything to stop antisocial behaviour.

There are fewer than 1,000 black-throated finches in the wild, but one north Queensland primary school has bred 120 as part of a science class.

Six staff members within Queensland's Youth Justice Department are sacked amid dozens of substantiated cases of corruption that include criminal behaviour, inappropriate conduct and using excessive force.

A site is chosen for a dam as part of the $300 million Hughenden Irrigation Project in north Queensland, but questions remain about how water licences will be granted.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un orders the removal of all "shabby" facilities at the Mount Kumgang tourist site the current resting place of Townsville's former Barrier Reef Floating Resort.

While battling its own drought, an outback Queensland town is offering free bore water to communities running out of the precious resource. There's just one catch.

Two holidaying nurses want to have a beer with two "cool" English tourists who managed to keep positive minutes after being attacked by a shark. The nurses provided first aid which is credited with saving the men's lives.

Children sleeping at home have been woken and arrested in Alice Springs, according to lawyers dismayed at a potential government back down on the use of arrest as a last resort.

Eric Ebatarintja escaped from the prison for the second time after removing his electronic monitoring bracelet. Although his sentence had expired, he was being held on an ongoing basis under the Serious Sex Offenders Act because the court deemed him to be at high risk of reoffending.

One of Australia's most remote cattle properties, Suplejack Station, sells for the first time in its 55-year history.

A Northern Territory judge previously sanctioned for "harsh" and "gratuitous" remarks from the bench has criticised other Aboriginal defendants. A legal body says the comments are "clearly offensive" but has not yet decided to make any formal complaint.

In a ground-breaking collaboration, Melbourne fashion label Gorman teams up with Indigenous artists whose work depicts places where sacred cultural knowledge has been passed down for thousands of years.

Leanne Liddle has been shot at and seriously assaulted working as a police officer, but none of that compares to the "despair" she felt when consulting across the NT for the Aboriginal Justice Agreement, where whole communities had been "neglected for decades".

The head of the Australian Law Society says comments by Alice Springs Judge Greg Borchers were "racist because they are disparaging, discriminatory and offensive, insulting and humiliating to Indigenous Australians based solely on their race".

Uluru, Kakadu and other cultural landscapes may be tourist meccas, but one respected elder says it's a misconception that tourist dollars are going back into Aboriginal communities.

Dujuan, a 12-year-old who was nearly jailed as a 10-year-old, addresses the NT Parliament, urging them to try to understand troubled youth and look for alternatives to detention.

While new laws block predominantly Aboriginal people from buying takeaway alcohol in Alice Springs, the local casino has been overwhelmed with patrons, and has been fined by a court for not ejecting drunk patrons.

The legalisation of marijuana has boosted tourism and created jobs in parts of the United States, and it could do the same in the Northern Territory, an economist says.

Once touted as Australia's next great cultural precinct, the National Indigenous Art Gallery planned for Alice Springs has hit another hurdle with the town's council rejecting the NT Government's $20-million land-swap deal.