A Brisbane study found that a ‘lower quality’ kidney transplant has been found to have better quality of life outcomes and is more cost effective than remaining on dialysis for patients with end-stage renal failure. 

Expanding the quality criteria of donor kidneys suitable for transplant may be a better strategy than remaining on dialysis in the hopes of being matched with a higher-graded kidney. 

Fraud charges have been dropped against eight former Logan City councillors two years after they were sacked.

Former mayor Luke Smith and seven Logan City Councillors  had all been charged by Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission two years ago.

Waste disposal is starting to be revolutionised on the sunshine coast with the underground suction system set to complete its first phase.

It has taken 5 years for a 6.5 kilometre network of underground pipes to be laid  under Maroochydore.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is being urged to apologise to former Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate, who alleges she was "bullied" into leaving her position over the Cartier watches scandal.

There is also growing support for Ms Holgate's call for Australia Post chair Lucio Di Bartolomeo to resign. 

The High court of Australia has upheld a terrorism conviction after ruling that married couples can commit conspiracy together.

Alo-Bridget Namoa and Sameh Bayda were convicted of planning to commit a street attack on non-Muslims during late 2015 and early 2016.

US President Joe Biden will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America that were coordinated from that country.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced that Restrictions will ease from 6am tomorrow.

Masks will not be required except at airports or when flying visitors will be allowed in hospitals, aged and disability care facilities as soon they are ready. 

Mayors of rural towns in Outback Queensland are calling on Google Maps to update their services after the Town of Eromanga was plotted 85 kilometres away from its actual location. 

Safety concerns have also been raised about Google Maps suggesting ‘bizarre’ routes that direct tourists off main roads and into bushland. 

The RMIT ABC fact checker has looked into the reach of Rupert Murdoch's media empire amid calls by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for more media diversity.

Roy Morgan polling found that News Corp reached more than twice as many people each week than Nine Entertainment did through its print newspapers.

Brittany Higgins will be publishing a memoir of her experiences working inside Australia's halls of power, with half of the profits going to a rape crisis centre in Canberra which she says was a personal "lifeline" in the wake of her alleged sexual assault.