Stuck on a roof with floodwaters raging below them, things looked dire for Helen Gallo and her kids Sienna and Zander, until four volunteers showed up.
Category: ABC Brisbane News Updates
Country schools pitch for more staff at Teach Rural Fair
There was a big response to an industry fair aimed at encouraging city teachers to work in country schools.
Reimbursement package for disease-hit prawn farmers
The Federal Government and the prawn industry reach agreement on a $20 million reimbursement package for farmers affected by the white spot outbreak.
New Brisbane 'flood bible' should encourage 'fairer insurance premiums'
Insurers should use a new study of the Brisbane River catchment to reduce premiums for flood insurance, a leading hydrologist and the Mayor of Ipswich say.
Midwives of the skies: Birthing babies in the air
It is a career that sees families through one of the most joyous occasions of their lives, made more challenging by doing it thousands of feet in the air.
Does extended cannabis use play a role in psychosis?
When Cairns mother Raina Thaiday killed eight children in 2014 she had been clean of cannabis for months, but a psychiatrist found her prior long-term use may have trigged the violent schizophrenic episode.
Cairns mother not 'criminally responsible' for killing eight children
A woman who fatally stabbed her seven children and niece will remain in mental health facilities indefinitely after a Queensland court rules she is of “unsound mind”.
Wife fears husband will become next Indigenous death in custody
The wife of a Northern Territory man sentenced to prison for driving offences in Queensland believes he is about to become Australia’s next Indigenous death in custody statistic.
Commonwealth calls for intervention to free terminally ill Indigenous man
The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister is calling on the Queensland Government to intervene in the case of a terminally ill man sentenced to prison for driving offences.
Teys forges own path to meet rising demand for pasture-fed certified beef
Teys Australia turns its back on an industry assurance scheme it helped to initiate, citing its inability to keep up with increased demand for certified grass-fed beef.