Fossilised remains thought to be 100 million years old have been identified as a new species of pterosaur, a powerful flying predator with a wingspan of up to 12 metres.
With outback towns stuck in a cycle of workforce shortages and a dire need for childcare, parents are taking care of each other's children so they can keep their jobs.
Gangalidda man Barry Walden says the community policing team he was part of "ran a tight ship" in the north-western Queensland town before the initiative fell away. He says it is time to bring it back in his outback home.
Cattle on a property in the outback are mustered by drones while the pilot sits far away on the Gold Coast during a world-first demonstration for graziers.
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