China e-commerce giant Alibaba plans to open 1,000 of its new-age supermarkets in the next five years and it has Australian produce on its shopping list.
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Will you ever be able to live inside Brisbane's Indooroopilly bridge?
It’s been nearly 10 years since the last residents moved out of Brisbane’s Walter Taylor Bridge, so what is the future of the only habitable bridge in the Southern Hemisphere?
Bushfire threat now a year-round situation in Australia: expert
A leading bushfire expert says Australia is heading into uncharted territory for bushfire threats with so much of the nation in drought.
Cotton farm execs face court over $20m federal funding 'fraud'
Two senior figures from the massive southern Queensland cotton operation Norman Farming face court in Brisbane accused of defrauding the Commonwealth of $20 million in Murray-Darling water funding.
'Eggsembly' shows Canberra how to establish parliamentary pecking order
After a turbulent week in federal politics, Canberra could learn from Queensland’s Parliament where Miss Hensard and other chickens are helping to lower stress levels of MPs.
Suspected asylum seekers found in Daintree taken to Christmas Island
A spokesperson for Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says 17 suspected asylum seekers found in far north Queensland have been moved to detention on Christmas Island.
Found a snake in your yarn? Unless you want to get bitten, put down the shovel
Snake catchers are urging anyone who finds one of the reptiles in or around their home to lay down their shovels and leave the creatures to the professionals. It comes as yet another snake is killed by a man pinning it down with a metal pole to “stop it from escaping”.
Serial rapist Robert Fardon to be released into community
One of Queensland’s most notorious sexual predators is now considered “low risk” and will be no longer be monitored by authorities from October, after the State Government loses a bid to extend his supervision order
Dylan Napa accepts NRL ban to rock Roosters' finals campaign
Dylan Napa will miss the start of the Sydney Roosters’ NRL finals campaign after pleading guilty to a dangerous contact charge on Brisbane hooker Andrew McCullough.
Two arrested amid search for group who abandoned suspected illegal fishing boat
Two people are arrested as a search continues for a group of people who abandoned a suspected illegal fishing boat in the Daintree River in far north Queensland.