Emergency services were notified just after 10pm on Wednesday that a 2007 Cruise Craft 686 Outsider, with three men aboard, had crashed at high-speed in Rous Channel near Wynnum West.

Queensland Ambulance Service senior operations supervisor Jeremy Lawrance says a 40-year-old passenger suffered an abdominal injury and bleeding in his stomach.

He was rushed to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in a critical condition and given a blood transfusion on the way.

A seven-step toolkit designed by the Regional Australia Institute has been rolled out in rural and regional Australia to attract more skilled employees to the area.

The Regional Australia Institute (RAI), says there are currently more than 44,600 job vacancies in regional Australia that are proving hard to fill.

Chronic labour shortages have affected some regional areas, resulting in population decline and the closure of businesses.

An Australian researcher, is studying the possibility the infection  of gonorrhoea can be spread by kissing.

At the STI and HIV World Conference in Vancouver on Thursday, Professor Kit Fairley from Monash University will be arguing his case in a debate with Professor Emeritus H. Hunter Handsfield from the University of Washington.

In Australia, gonorrhoea rates have more than tripled between 2008 and 2017 from 36 to 118.

Hong Kong's more venerable and veteran residents have taken to the streets as the elderly put on a show of solidarity for youth-led anti-government protesters.

Thousands of people took part in what was dubbed a "grey hair march" and the “silver hair protest” - billed as a way to show the city's pro-Beijing leadership that plenty of its older and more reliable  conservative citizens still support younger demonstrators.  

Hong Kong's more venerable and veteran residents have taken to the streets as the elderly put on a show of solidarity for youth-led anti-government protesters.

Thousands of people took part in what was dubbed a "grey hair march" and the “silver hair protest” - billed as a way to show the city's pro-Beijing leadership that plenty of its older and more reliably conservative citizens still support younger demonstrators. 

Six months after a deadly dam collapse in Brazil, new evidence has emerged that suggests the disaster could have been prevented.

Investigators believe there's evidence the German company that certified the structure as safe knew it was vulnerable to collapse.

Nearly 300 people died when the collapse triggered a mudslide near the south-eastern town of Brumadinho.

Taiwan moved thousands of people to safety on Wednesday as the island braced for its first typhoon this year, airlines cancelled domestic flights and authorities issued warnings about floods and high seas.

Typhoon Danas, categorised at the weakest typhoon level, was expected to hit the eastern county of Yilan late on Thursday. It was moving across the ocean in a northwesterly direction at 18km per hour.

Authorities have said more than 2,000 people were moved to safety, most of them tourists on islands off its east coast.

A gun retailer, Gun City plans to open a mega store in Christchurch has upset residents just months after a gunman killed 51 people at two mosques in the city.

The accused gunman, Australian Brenton Tarrant, bought four weapons and ammunition between December 2017 and March 2018 at  Gun City in March.

Radio New Zealand said some of those living near the proposed site were upset at the prospect of the store, sprawling over 300sqm, along with warehouse, office and car park, set to open in August.