Alicia Nally

Despite its ancient role, Australia still needs more blacksmiths, and one Ipswich specialist wants the next generation to discover the rewards of his career.

Described as having "a leg as a tail", the amphibian managed to escape capture, despite the fifth appendage having no discernible use.

There is plenty of government policy working to limit the amount of seafood taken from Australian waters, but nothing being done to bolster reserves of fish, crustaceans and shellfish — until now.

Inside a community hall in Brisbane, a group of women are learning how to surf on land.

In a bid to address a "rapid increase" of students in outer Brisbane schools, Brisbane City Council has voted to formally push the state government to purchase more land to build new school infastruture.

Thousands of people across the world are sporting Melbourne-made jerseys, hoodies and T-shirts for a team that doesn't exist.

A new report shows some rental homes topped 40C during summer as tenant advocates call for the Queensland government to extend electricity bill rebates.

Gillian Brown is in charge of a collection of more than 900,000 botanical species, and has even identified a new genus of plant that she found on the side of an outback road. Her favourite specimen though is the zombie fungus, which grows on the bodies of insects.

A Brisbane City Council spokeswoman says most of those complaints came from the suburbs of Rocklea, Coorparoo, New Farm, Toowong and Moorooka.

Born to an English mother later diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and a Hungarian father struggling with mental illness exacerbated by war, Paul, Chris, Helena and Liz Ban started life with the odds stacked against them.