A honeymooning pair claim to have run into not one, but six natural disasters as they followed their itinerary around the globe.

The Christchurch earthquake has generated new cooperation between Australian and New Zealand tourism authorities, with New Zealand offered a free platform to pitch for business at Australia’s major annual tourism trade show.

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh saw the softer side of Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl when she dropped in to thank the US rock band for Sunday night's flood benefit concert.

It will go down among the most thrilling soccer grand finals in Australian sporting history.

Brisbane Roar staged a remarkable comeback to win the A-League grand final on penalties over a heartbroken Central Coast.

Release your inner palaeontologist and dig for dinosaurs in Winton, writes Pamela Wade.

Have the secrets of NZ's best home bakers at your fingertips with this book from the popular series.

Fifteen people in the Auckland region are now confirmed to have measles since an Emirates flight arrived in Auckland from Brisbane in mid-January.

A Queensland fisherman washed overboard by a rogue wave has survived a marathon, six-hour swim to shore.

A second rugby league team in Brisbane is "on the cards" at some point in the future, NRL boss David Gallop has conceded.

Cyclone Yasi is building as a storm of unprecedented ferocity - the likes of which hasn't been seen since 1918 - and already it is lashing the Queensland coast.

Get out now. Don't bother to pack your bags. Just gather your family and leave. That's the grave directive Premier Anna Bligh has made to people in low-lying parts of north Queensland under direct threat from monster Cyclone Yasi.

'The most serious cyclone you can have' is how Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is describing the storm set to ravage the state tonight. The storm has been upgraded to a Category Five cyclone - the most severe level imaginable.

Thousands of people are fleeing their homes and hospitals are being emptied as severe tropical cyclone Yasi bears down on the north Queensland coast.

Evacuations are underway as severe tropical cyclone Yasi continues its charge towards the north Queensland coast.

Wilma has now well and truly gone, absorbed into the roaring 40s to bring more gales and rain to the South Ocean.

NRL boss David Gallop concedes the impact a second Brisbane team would have on the Broncos would be a major consideration in any expansion decision it made.

New Zealand-born singer Jon Stevens says he's outraged about being ejected from a Jetstar flight to Brisbane, where he was to play at a Queensland flood relief concert, and denies any bad behaviour.