"Every hour five men die from a preventable illness," said Lauren Chimes, a health worker who's involved in travelling in a four-wheel-drive and camper trailer to deliver a unique men's health program to remote areas of Queensland....

The Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, has spent the weekend visiting the small communities of Windorah, Jundah and Stonehenge, in Queensland's channel country. Ms Bryce and Michael Bryce flew into Windorah on Friday afternoon where they visited the local school and clinic, officially opened ...

When war breaks out, it's not just men and women who head off to the battlefields. Dogs, horses, birds, camels and even rats have various roles in wartime and their involvement has been highlighted in an exhibition currently on display in Longreach....

Humble North West Queensland resident, Shirley Eckford, makes the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours list....

Beyond Billabong is a life skills program for young Indigenous men which uses rural skills to develop self esteem, resilience, confidence and respect. It's a teaching method which began on the dusty stock routes of Queensland but has been honed into a sophisticated program. ...

This selection of essays, written over a twenty year period, provide an insight into the unique imagination of author Gerald Murnane, and the obsessions that lay at the heart of both the man and his writing. These include horseracing, grasslands, Jack Kerouac, and the country Hungary: a country ...

The School Magazine is Australia's oldest literary magazine, and it's the oldest literary magazine for children anywhere in the world. It began in 1916 as a free publication for NSW primary school children, with the noble aim of presenting Australian writers for Australian children. ...

Philosophy is a way of grasping our visible and invisible social world. But there is another way, and it's called anthropology, which studies the way in which various human cultures extend their grasp. This week, we take a philosophical look at what anthropologists get up to. Do they just observe ...

He's been teaching violin for decades in Finland. Szilvay invented the Colourstrings method with enormous success, the least of which has been enormous sales of fiddles to Finnish children....

A leading education expert says Pacific children are being disadvantaged in the global workplace because of the way they are taught at school....