Almost half of all Australian voters are expected to vote early, and possibly even more in Queensland, where election day falls on a long weekend.

The showpiece attractions of any Olympic Games are the venues where feats of ... into the palest of white elephants. Brisbane is, after all, the smallest city by population to host a Summer ...

Opponents of a whitewater centre planned for south-east Queensland say they've "drawn the short straw" of Olympic venues.A ...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP ... A new 60,000-seat stadium built in inner-city parkland, a sailing venue on the Whitsunday islands near the Great Barrier Reef and a crocodile-inhabited rowing ...