Phone, internet and council-run TV services have been making way for foreign satellite technology in rural Queensland as ground infrastructure ages, forcing councils to shut down services.
A permit to cull 20,000 native birds has been granted to a cattle station in the Northern Territory in response to an "overpopulation" of destructive and "exceptionally noisy" galahs and little corellas.
The South Australian government is planning to lift a ban on fracking in the state's South East amid reports of increasing risks to gas supply in southern parts of the nation.