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It started as a war-time snack that reduced waste during food scarcity, but now tallow is making Australia one of the most significant players in biofuel exports.

Power outages are crippling a small community north-west of Gympie, with residents saying they've experiences a dozen blackouts since December.

Residents of this regional town say it feels like they are stuck in the "Middle Ages," with the area still experiencing constant power losses.

Damage assessments will be carried out today in parts of southern and south-east Queensland, after days of torrential rain.

Schools and roads closed as flash flooding hit widespread areas of south-east Queensland on Tuesday. Rain eased by late in the afternoon but flooding remained an issue in many areas. 

Christopher Martin Bulbrook, 63, faced Brisbane's Magistrate Court on Friday.

Silent films started screening at the Majestic Theatre almost by accident. Thirty-five years later, they are still rolling — and they still come with musical accompaniment.

As visitor numbers surge on K'gari (Fraser Island) during holidays, so too does the number of interactions with dangerous creatures in the area, as authorities reiterate safety messages about wildlife.

This quiet Queensland village is "not particularly noted for its pumpkins", but its pumpkin festival attracts thousands of visitors and even entices some to make their annual visit permanent.

Around midday today, Garry Striebel took this video of hail falling in Gympie.

Tanya Hehir, 46, was one of three women who went exploring the so-called "love tunnel" in Gympie. Police said the women, including another 40-year-old who also died, had been washed back through the drain into Mary River.

Family and friends are mourning the loss of seven people who have lost their lives during intense Christmas holiday storms in south-east Queensland. 

Gympie Mayor Glen Hartwig holds grave concerns for three missing women in the Mary River. 

Massive hail storm hitting Gympie South.

The Bureau of Meteorology says the size of hail reported by residents may potentially rival a 16-centimetre record from 2021, as damage to houses, cars and farming crops in south east Queensland is reported.

Do you know where your milk comes from? If you're in Queensland there's half a chance it's travelled through NSW and Victoria, possibly from a dairy up to 2,000 kilometres away.

Robbie Radel's voice breaks as he describes his dread of the week ahead — having to watch the last of his beloved milkers being trucked away from the farm his family has owned since 1906.

Storms sweeping across parts of Queensland have left two women with minor injuries, after a piece of corrugated iron was picked up by strong winds and pierced the roof of a home near Kilcoy.

They started out wild, feral and fearful of humans. Now these brumbies are showing just how loyal and capable they can be when given the chance.

Queensland graziers are being urged to sell their cattle as the state's bushfire emergency exacerbates an already dire national feed shortage.

Some parts of Queensland have run out of water, and landholders are paying a heavy price as paddocks become parched.

Restoration work on a severely eroded Queensland river is stopping tens of thousands of tonnes of sediment from smothering the Great Barrier Reef.

Sharon Graham has been found guilty of masterminding the so-called 'woodchipper murder' of the mild-mannered Bruce Saunders — a cash-poor but asset-rich man deemed to be worth more dead than alive.

A Supreme Court jury found Sharon Graham guilty of counselling her lover to kill her ex-partner Bruce Saunders. Mr Saunders' body was fed into a woodchipper on a property near Gympie in 2017.

Sharon Graham, 61, has pleaded not guilty to murdering 54-year-old Bruce Saunders near Gympie in November 2017.