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As a recent graduate from the State University of New York College at Potsdam, I have planned my studies around the hopes that I would student teach in Australia.

PREMIER Jay Weatherill insists creating jobs is at the heart of what his Labor government is about, despite official figures showing South Australia's unemployment rate remains the worst of all the mainland states.

HE was once the most powerful man in the free world - so what does former USA President George Bush have to say to Campbell Newman? TESTS on a sick flying fox found in a park in Brisbane's inner-west have shown it was infected with the deadly Australian Bat Lyssavirus.

A doctor living in rural Queensland says it's the patients who have kept him in town for the past decade.

BREAKING NEWS: Huge explosion demolishes Manhattan apartment building: One dead and at least 16 injured with residents feared trapped inside after suspected gas leak 'We have no idea where it could be': Confusion reigns on day of contradictions from baffled Malaysian authorities as they expand search 350 miles west into the Indian Ocean Ukraine ... (more)

ONE of Queensland's most senior judges faces being sidelined under a shake-up to the state's highest court.

POLITICIANS have been given the green light to hide the identities of family members who spend millions of taxpayer dollars annually flying around Australia in business class.

Colony has been pumping out a lot of good content lately and this one from Liam Marshall is no different.

The teenage New Zealand-born star's itinerary reveals dates in six cities, starting April 24 in Melbourne, showed by shows in Adelaide , Perth , Sydney , Newcastle and Brisbane .

Doctors save passenger on plane . MARCH 10, 2014 08:11. . At 7:30 p.m. last Friday, an airplane of the Korea Air having departed from the Incheon International Airport was flying to Brisbane, Australia.

IF YOU thought our bikie gangs had street cred, wait until you see the motorbike girls of Morocco.

TICKET scalpers who hock-off tickets to the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games face being slapped with thousands of dollars in fines.

Fifteen fire crews were called in to tackle a large blaze in a storage facility at Loganholme, south of Brisbane, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services said.

Bruce Springsteen speaks to the media during a sound-check ahead of the first show of his Wrecking Ball Tour at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on March 14, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia.

In this weeks Across the Water, Martin Grant talks to Julie Morgan, originally from Proleek, Ravensdale, now living in Brisbane, Australia.

The Australian state of Queensland is in the grip of its most widespread drought ever, with close to 80 per cent of its territory parched after a failed wet season, officials said on Friday.

Apple , slammed in 2013 for its tax avoidance strategies , was the subject of an Australian Financial Review investigation on Thursday.

BREAKING: The husband of missing woman Novy Chardon has flown back to Australia, as police unearth a vehicle tied to the case.

BREAKING: The husband of missing woman Novy Chardon has flown back to Australia, as police unearth a vehicle tied to the case.

Al Jazeera producer Baher Mohamed, left, and correspondent Peter Greste, center, stand inside the defendants' cage in a courtroom during their trial on terror charges, along with several other defendants, in Cairo Egypt, Wednesday, March 5, 2014.