The grandparents of a 16-month-old boy who was killed more than a decade ago says it shouldn't take a crisis to change the nation's childcare industry.
After two years of mediocre catches, a bountiful Spanish mackerel season is underway in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and fishers say it is good news for shoppers.
Grazier Boyd Webb is running an outback cropping experiment to get him through the next drought, growing sorghum to bury as insurance against the next big dry.
Authorities use DNA testing and tracing to work out the origin of fire ants found more than 700 kilometres outside the biosecurity control zone meant to contain the invasive pest.
Businesses and pastoral stations in the Channel Country region of far-north-east South Australia could be stranded for up to eight months, after Cooper Creek's only barge was taken away for servicing two years ago.
