Meghan Dansie is a multi-platform journalist with ABC North West Queensland based in the outback town of Mount Isa. She previously worked for the ABC in Cairns. Before joining the ABC she completed a Master of Journalism at the University of Melbourne and has written for The New York Times and The Age.
Never short of a soundbite, the MP has gone from country kid to Bjelke-Petersen-era Queensland, to federal parliament.
Topic:Profile
When tree-changers Frank and Debbie Wust bought the pub that starred in Crocodile Dundee just over a decade ago, they had no idea it also meant helping to run an outback community.
As major airlines face a Senate inquiry and airfare rise across Australia, outback residents are paying the price of an international ticket to travel to their nearest capital city.
A group of women on Mornington Island have been learning to make high-quality swags for people in need of beds in their small, isolated community.
Topic:Solutions
Australian phosphate miners are looking to boost India's food and manufacturing industries and gain a bigger foothold in the world's fastest-growing large economy.
A remote Queensland council is enticing people to move from interstate with the promise of a guaranteed rental and lucrative mining jobs.
As Mount Isa grapples with one of the highest crime rates in Queensland and more than 1,000 imminent job losses, local leaders want a prison to be built in their backyard.
A game of cat and mouse is being played between the state and Swiss multinational Glencore in an outback town facing the closure of its historic copper mine.
Fed up with broken houses and plumbing, residents of Dajarra in outback Queensland are attempting to pay for repairs through 10-cent can rebates.
Almost 100 kilograms of fireworks are seized by authorities at the Northern Territory-Queensland border, after Territory Day celebrations in the NT that allow them to be used.
Now a ghost town, the community of Mary Kathleen disappeared after the nearby uranium mine closed in 1982. But in its heyday, it was an oasis in outback Queensland.
Working on a cattle station in one of the most remote parts of Australia, these backpackers say outback life is an opportunity that more young Australians should be taking up.
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.
Bush communities are being forced to trek thousands of kilometres and face year-long waitlists for basic dental health services as industry leaders and locals call for urgent action from the government to attract more dentists to the outback.
Getting access to critical health care is difficult for people in rural areas, so medical professionals hit the road and took to the skies to bring the services to them.
A rescue package promised earlier this year has failed to materialise for one of Australia's oldest sugar mills that will close in Far North Queensland.
A trial in Cairns is uncovering what happened in the lead-up to the terrifying moment father-of-three Dean Sanderson fell from a zipline in the Daintree Rainforest in 2019.
A Queensland man registered as a child sex offender has been repatriated after allegedly breaching reporting conditions by sailing to the island of Daru in Papua New Guinea.
Two months after the flooding in far north Queensland, communities in isolated townships ask whether it is wise to rebuild in the same places.
A man has been charged with torture and slavery offences, following a police investigation in a remote part of Far North Queensland.
Weary residents in storm-ravaged towns, who had just started to get on top of clean-up efforts, are facing the possibility of more rain.
A woman is expected to face court Thursday morning after being charged with the murder of an elderly man who was allegedly stabbed inside his unit at Palm Cove overnight.
Several people are being treated after a light plane crashed while landing on remote Lizard Island.