A study involving a University of Queensland researcher has found that the presence of different strains of grass pollen in the atmosphere can help predict when hay fever and asthma is at its height.

A 71-year-old pilot has died after his light plane crashed in far north Queensland on Monday afternoon.

Authorities spotted the wreckage during an aerial search of the Herberton Range after the pilot failed to arrive at his destination in Atherton.

Labor has officially announced it will lift the Medicare rebate freeze if it wins government, prompting Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt to publish a series of tweets on the LNP’s achievements since being in government.

Hunt posted that GP bulk-billing is up nearly 4 percent from 82.2 percent under Labor, claiming that more patients are seeing their local GP without having to pay out of pocket costs.

According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, more than one million Australian families are paying more for their internet under NBN.

 With the initial promise of being more affordable than existing ADSL connections, the ACCC said that NBN is failing to deliver with faster broadband and with prices that are just as high.

The British Military is being pressured to revoke the honorary appointments awarded to the Sultan of Brunei by the Queen after he ruled homosexuality punishable by stoning to death.

As Brunei’s head of state, the Sultan has made the ruling amidst an on-going reform to the nation’s Sharia-law based penal code.

Two Australian men have come forward to reveal they were interrogated by Chinese officials in regards to an investigation launched by Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The interrogators wanted to know more about Turnbull’s investigation into China’s influence in Australia and pressed for information about John Garnaut, the man appointed to lead the investigative team.

Over the Easter and Anzac Day public holidays, construction sites across Queensland will shut down for up to 10 consecutive days.

The National Construction Union said it had grouped rostered days off around public holidays “at the insistence of employers,” however, the Master Builders Australia group that represents employers have accused the union of bullying to get its way.

Along with Queensland, construction sites all over Australia will close for the holidays with those in New South Wales closing for seven days and Victoria and Tasmania for ten.
 

A Brisbane woman has recently been alerted that Queensland police have destroyed evidence from her alleged rape two decades after the incident occurred, in a direct violation of the state’s new Human Rights Act.

Queensland Women’s Legal Service lawyer, Julie Sarkozi, has stated that this destruction of evidence without the victim’s knowledge or consent is “not only concerning legally” but “a clear breach of Section 25 of the Human Rights Act.”

Australians are being warned that the price of fresh fruit and vegetables could double in the foreseeable future, as farmers face increasing pressure from rising labour, weather extremes and electricity costs.

The Coalition Government committed to provide half the funding for the proposed eighty four million dollar Emu Swamp dam, but since progress has stalled, Growers urgently want a national conversation about a consistent water supply.