Selector and his family in the Beenleigh district, circa 1872(State Library of Queensland/Supplied) The fashion of Australia's second-largest state has often been derided as provincial—is this view ...

29 pages, $3.50 Communist parliamentarians, armed rural uprisings, revolutionary soviets — this is hardly the history of Queensland that has been presented in mainstream Australian history books or ...

People power and a fierce desire to ensure that almost a century of history is not lost have helped save a tiny hut in remote Queensland. Not much bigger than a thunderbox, rabbit huts were used as ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Gympie. Followed categories will be added to My News. Dancing Across Queensland celebrates the social and cultural dance traditions and practices which define the ...

When I produced the deadly earnest study A History of Queensland back in 2007, the publishers, tucked away down south in Port Melbourne, seriously asked me why I had not included a key section on ...

It took Queensland 62 years to win the Sheffield Shield for the first time, but they have not looked back since that maiden success, dominating the domestic scene in Australia over the last decade.

This was not so much an expression of youthful adventure as a more prosaic instinct: it was about sounds and smells, machinery and timetables, gauges and networks and an ever-expanding glossary of ...

Two days earlier, the 49-year-old had strolled out of her family’s cottage at Bustard Head, on Queensland’s central coast near Gladstone, and disappeared. That was back in 1887. There was nothing at ...