Fears are growing for a Kiwi teenager missing in rough Queensland surf since Monday morning.

Chris Pritchard makes Mary - repeatedly - in one of Queensland's oldest provincial cities.

Aussie police have praised 'schoolies' despite 30 arrests overnight as thousands of school leavers descended on Surfers Paradise.

300 animals - including some that are extinct in the wild - were sold to a Northern Territory hunting safari.

Anna Leask meets the inhabitants of creek, reef and rainforest in the north of Queensland.

There are 150 dingoes on Fraser Island, and Jim Eagles was determined to see one in the flesh.

Holden hope Will Davison has suggested V8 Supercars leader Jamie Whincup may be psyched out by the challenge of defending his title.

The former partner of deceased Napier gunman Jan Molenaar has told a court he bullied her into selling cannabis.

Suspicion that arsonists may have been behind a series of spot fires near Rockhampton in central Queensland, lit while firefighters were battling a "terrifying" wildfire, has fuelled community anger.

An unknown man is said to have threatened glamour couple Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom, according to reports.

Residents of a Rockhampton suburb were last night being urged to evacuate their homes as a "terrifying" bushfire threatens properties in the central Queensland city.