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When a kangaroo became stranded on the sloped roof of a home in Queensland, Australia, residents had no ...

Premium Content Subscriber only A man has been flown to hospital with multiple injuries after crashing his motorbike into a cow west of Monto. Its believed he was trail bike riding on a dirt road when a herd of cattle ran across in front of him. The chopper was tasked to the scene just before 4pm this afternoon (Thursday 15 April). The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) Flight Paramedic worked with other QAS paramedics to treat the man, aged in his 60s, before he was loaded into the helicopter...

Indigenous health workers deliver trusted medical care to outback communities updated 1 Caleb Pigliafiori is a Mount Isa-based QAS Indigenous cadet. ( Share Print text only Cancel Young Indigenous healthcare workers in Queensland are following the footsteps of their family members and hope more of their generation will do the same, but one Mount Isa Indigenous doctor says the job is not a 9-to-5 commitment.  Key points: More Indigenous healthcare workers are needed in regional and remote commu...

NINE Three people walked 50 kilometres to Mount Isa, which took them 12 hours, to get help after their ute became stuck. A father and his 10-year-old son were rescued from the roof of their bogged ute in flooded north-west Queensland after their three companions walked 50 kilometres to get help. The ute became stuck west of Mount Isa on Sunday evening and the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter reached the stranded man and boy on Monday evening, just before last light. While Mount Isa itself ha...

Share The Mount Isa-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter was then sent out to find the father and son who were still stranded in the water.  The trio managed to find where the ute had become stuck on the map and the crew flew directly to the location. Just before last light, the crew located the man and child sitting on the roof of a vehicle and landed the helicopter on a dry patch of land nearby. The pair had to be rescued on Monday night after their friends walked 12 hours to a police sta...

1 / of 2 Cloncurry Question Marks name has had a secret origin story for 25 years, now its been revealed SatSaturday 19 Neil Dickinson-Jones is the Question Marks longest running player and still competes today. ( Print text only Cancel Local sport teams have their fair share of unusual team names, but a rugby union club in north-west Queensland has a local reputation for being the most mysterious. Key points: The Cloncurry Question Marks were established in the mid-nineties Founder Wayne Simo...