Premier David Crisafulli is urging residents to listen to emergency warnings as a low-pressure system wreaks havoc from ...

There have been six SES call-outs across the Whitsundays in the past 24 hours as the region is battered by more rain, with ...

Emergency alerts for Townsville and surrounds have been issued by police as residents are warned to prepare to leave due to ...

10-tonne find on Aussie beach highlights devastating issue Dirty ... In northern Australia, the Gulf of Carpentaria is a hotspot for marine debris. The region collects rubbish from nearby ...

As the wet season approaches, two outback stations that usually face failing fridges and whopping power bills have installed ...

Because the ABC Emergency Alerts system relies entirely on information published by emergency agencies, despite the best efforts of those agencies, the ABC cannot guarantee that this information will ...

Amid cyclone threats and heavy rain, Queensland residents are being warned about an extra threat lurking in floodwaters.

A deepening trough and two tropical lows off the North Queensland coast have brought down heavy rainfall in the region overnight as they continue to intensify offshore.

After two months they reached the tropical northern coast on the Gulf of Carpentaria, and then turned back again. They had proved that nothing lay in the center except a semidesert — the inland ...

Interestingly, in 1623, Dutch explorer Jan Carstenszoon retraced Duyfken’s 1606 route into the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Peraand Arnhem ... of “all the totally unknown Provinces of Beach.” This was a ...

A monsoon surge forecast to move through Indonesia and into northern Australian waters late this week may see a tropical low ...