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The US ticket-selling platform Lyte has shut down, leaving two Australian music festivals in the lurch. 

Queensland Police allege they've uncovered a scheme where unsuspecting victims of identity theft were used to take the blame for hundreds of speeding offences. 

Sub-zero temperatures have greeted many early risers west of the range in New South Wales and Queensland, with more cold weather expected tomorrow.

Queenslanders wake up to frost covering their windscreens and lawns as a cold snap hits the state.

Temperatures were cold enough to freeze this birdbath in Warwick.

Queensland's first proper cold snap this winter has hit, and as the winds drop early next week another round of frosts are likely, extending from the south all the way to the central part of the state.

Benjamin James Nunns, 34, claimed he was suffering from paranoid delusions due to an underlying mental illness when he shot Charles Compton in April 2020. A jury has decided otherwise.

Some Queenslanders woke to frost this week, as the state feels its first "real proper cold snap" of the year.

Data from Australia's biggest festival pill testing service shows MDMA and ketamine were prevalent at the Rabbits Eat Lettuce festival, with new psychoactive substances also showing up.

It's the first time this type of pill testing will be done in Queensland, and a national first for a four-day music festival.

Rabbits Eat Lettuce Festival organiser Eric Lamir shows where the pill testing and medical staff will be situated at the four-day event.

Pill testing is already available in some countries, including New Zealand and parts of Europe. So far, Canberra's Groovin the Moo music festival was the first in Australia to trial it.

More than 300 people were forced to evacuate when a huge fire ripped through dozens of homes in the southern Queensland community of Tara. Now the residents are coming to grips with the devastation while looking to the future. 

Firefighters from Victoria said their crewmates are like brothers.

Conditions have eased Thursday, but there are still a multitude of bushfire warnings in southern Queensland, where dozens of homes have been lost.

Inspector Kent Barron from Queensland Fire and Emergency Services says there are a series of fires south of Warwick, including the Delveen and Wallangarra blazes, which remain active.

A plane has crashed into a field in southern Queensland.

Queensland is frequently portrayed as being in the grips of a worsening crime epidemic, despite data suggesting otherwise. But a trip down memory lane reveals the media has been reporting a similar sentiment for nearly 200 years.

While the sunshine state has jumped on the Brisbane Lions' bandwagon this week, zoo owner Stephanie Robinson has been tending to her own pride. And after work, it's off to the horse paddock to see her broncos.

Twenty-year-old Emily Banks wins the Kimberley's Jewel of the North campdrafting competition in a field of competitive riders from the NT and WA.