The Queensland government has announced its plan to protect visitors to the Whitsundays after three shark attacks,including one fatal mauling,in Cid Harbour.
The Victorian man fatally mauled while sharing a paddleboard with a female friend was on the first day of a five-day cruise in the Whitsundays.
Whitsundays mayor Andrew Willcox said the lagoon would reopen on Tuesday and CCTV footage had been given to police.
With 1.4 billion people in China,the chance of finding the letter writer was remote,but social media came to the rescue.
Dorothy Britton was killed in an"an act of extreme violence"decades ago and now a South Australian relative faces a murder charge.
Baked dirt roads,bumps and bugs - it's all in a day's work for drivers in the Royal Flying Doctors Service Outback Car Trek.
Bethany Emily Farrell drowned while scuba diving at Blue Pearl Bay after she became separated from her dive group in February 2015.
It's rated the best beach in Australia and the fifth best in the world,but scientists can't explain it.
With summer just around the corner,Ute Junker leaves no grain of sand unturned in her guide to the best beach towns on Australia's east coast.
At the northern end of Airlie Beach,Mirage Whitsundays offers commanding views of the Coral Sea and Whitsunday Islands.
If you're looking for a place in Australia to pop the question,it's hard to go past here.