Acting Tourism Industry Development Minister Di Farmer says new data released by Brisbane Airport proves Queensland’s tourism sector is booming.

International seat numbers through Brisbane Airport grew by 5.5 per cent to six million passengers in 2018 277,000 passengers more than the last year.

Meanwhile, domestic visitor numbers grew by 0.7 per cent to more than 17.5 million.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced she will bring her cabinet to the Sunshine Coast next month as part of the Governing from the Regions program.

“The Sunshine Coast is one of the largest regional economies in Australia and is booming in terms of population growth and new investment to support the growing community,” the Premier said.

Governing from the Regions has been held in a number of regional centres in recent years, including Wide Bay, the Gold Coast, Cairns and Rockhampton.

Dozens of budding musicians have performed at one of Perth's most popular live music venues as part of a drive to support girls in the music scene.

The girls, aged 10 to 17, spent a week of their school holidays in workshops writing and producing original songs at the WA Girls Rock Camp.

WA's Minister for Culture and the Arts, David Templeman, said $70,000 had been set aside for the Girls Rock program from the Government's newly launched Contemporary Music Fund.

A Darwin, artist is preparing to live in a tiny transparent dome for an entire month in an endurance art exhibition entitled Cocoon of Prayers. 

With just a few basic items like books, a small fan and a pillow, the artist,will spend most of his time repeating prayers and mantras, each time marking small pieces of paper to glue to the dome's wall until it becomes a literal cocoon of prayers.

A company that offered a reward for information leading kidnapped US teenager says it now hopes to give the money directly to the 13-year-old who managed to escape her abductor.

Jayme Closs was kidnapped from her home in Barron, Wisconsin, on October 15, with the suspect also allegedly killing both of her parents.

She escaped on January 11, 88 days after her ordeal bega

The body of explorer Matthew Flinders has been found at a burial site beneath Euston station in London, 216 years after he circumnavigated Australia.

His remains were identified by archaeologists working on the controversial HS2 high-speed rail project, thanks to a well-preserved lead breastplate.

Flinders circumnavigated Australia between 1801 and 1803.

Boreen Point kayak tour company Kanu Kapers donated more than $400 to Queensland Koala Crusaders, with the money to go towards creating wildlife corridors through land use designation and acquisition.

The money was raised by Kanu Kapers who aim to be 100% carbon neutral, and encourages visitors travelling to their destination by car to offset their emissions through a monetary donation.

A 45-year-old man is in custody and is likely to be charged with the murder of a 21-year-old Gold Coast woman who died after falling from a balcony in Southport in 2013.

Police allege Titans cheerleader Breeana Robinson, who was legally blind, was thrown from an 11th-storey balcony.

Detective Inspector Brendan Smith of the Gold Coast District Criminal Investigation Branch said today's arrest was the culmination of years of hard work by detectives.

Three people have been attacked by two dogs at a house in Sydney's west this afternoon.

Neighbours have described hearing screaming, while paramedics said there was a lot of blood at the scene.

A 40-year-old man was bitten multiple times and went into cardiac arrest at the home at Tregear.