Brisbane, Australia News

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.

Hyatt Hotels Corporation, PRISA Group and McConnell Valdes Consulting have announced the opening of Hyatt Place Manat in Manat, Puerto Rico.

QUEENSLAND Treasurer Tim Nicholls is about to embark on a 'listening tour' during which potential asset sales will be discussed - but you're not invited.

After years of futility in his first six NHL seasons with the New York Islanders and Florida Panthers, the star goaltender found a home - and the playoffs - in Vancouver.

SOME of Queensland's exclusive GPS schools were regularly outperformed by state schools with students from similar backgrounds on the NAPLAN tests last year.

TONY Abbott's plan to scrap foreign ownership limits on Qantas appears destined to fail, with key crossbench Senators refusing to support it.

The young, old, pregnant and sick have been told to evacuate Morwell, a town in Victoria, Australia, as a fire in a coal mine burns for its fourth week.