Queensland, Australia Travel News

San Pellegrino chefs help to make the Noosa International Food and Wine Festival a gastronomical event not to be missed - but get your tickets early for the next one The Queenslander sitting beside me at the Noosa International Food and Wine Festival's gala concert dinner exhibited a healthy waste not, want not mentality as he filled his water ... (more)

Details look like this: the sale includes economy class flights from either Los Angeles , Dallas or New York to Australia and then connecting flights to the tropical North Queensland city of Cairns , a jumping off point for trips to enjoy the crystal-blue waters of the Reef.

Qantas Airways , is giving travelers an extra incentive to visit Cairns, home of the Great Barrier Reef, and book an Australian getaway with huge savings on departures from .

Promising Aussie Rules talent is emerging from Queensland's most remote communities with six players from Cape York and the Torres Strait selected in the Queensland Country Kookaburras Under 14s team on Sunday.

The Federal Government has released figures suggesting all Queensland public schools would be significantly better off under the Gonski funding arrangements.

TWO men are dead and two others are fighting for life after drinking a batch of home-brewed spirits in southern Queensland.

MEET the North Queensland community leaders who are among the 582 Australians on the 2013 Queen's Birthday honours list.

File picture. A man died after an outbreak of legionnaire's disease at Brisbane's Wesley Hospital.

IT'S the stuff of fantasy, this tale tumbling from the lips of Marilyn Hume, even if the scene is as ordinary as they come.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre has announced the Brisbane exclusive and Australian debut performance by internationally acclaimed Ukrainian-born classical pianist Valentina Lisitsa tonight 8 June 2013.

Britain's barmy army has arrived in Brisbane with the touring British and Irish Lions team and are lapping up the off-field attractions.

THEY might hate Australia, especially during their British Lions tour, but the Poms have taken a shine to Brisbane.

ASHLEY HALL: One of Australia's biggest medical laboratories has admitted it failed to notify health authorities when it diagnosed a patient with Legionnaires' disease last week.

The Townsville suburb of Deeragun is the only area in Queensland to make it into the country's top 20 residential growth areas based on population and building approvals.

For those of us that are unable to travel to Australia for World Oceans Day , Tourism and Events Queensland is bringing the reef to the world.

A central Queensland tourism expert says if international tourists believe the Great Barrier Reef is endangered they will stop visiting.

MORE than 50 Ergon executives were flown to Townsville for a two-day "love in" less than a week after Queenslanders were warned to brace for a 22.6 per cent hike in their power bills.

Queensland is much less popular on TE than New South Wales or Victoria. And who goes to Cairns??? it is very far from anywhere - from Brisbane it is more that 1700 km by road or train and there are no other towns around.

In one corner is James Packer, who wants to build a second Brisbane casino. In the other are Echo Entertainment, the owners of Queensland's three existing casinos.

Queensland Rail spokesman Martin Ryan says it was the state's first air-conditioned passenger train and replaced steam trains with a brand new locomotive.