Conor Byrne

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Christopher Testa |Conor Byrne

The doors have closed to the only supermarket, service station and campground in Seisia after a board takeover at its community-owned enterprise. Staff at Seisia Enterprises say they have been turning up to work despite being owed weeks of wages. The new board refutes suggestions it is responsible for the closure saying it's reviewing the company's financial position, while the registrar of Indigenous corporations has ordered a full examination.

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Christopher Testa |Conor Byrne

In some parts of Far North Queensland, paying $3 a litre for fuel – twice as much as other Queenslanders – is just a fact of life. The electorate of Leichhardt spans 150,000 square kilometres and stretches from suburban Cairns, all the way through Cape York to the Torres Strait. Live: Albanese and Dutton both in PerthThe median weekly income is $200 less than the average Australian and locals say the cost of living is only becoming harder to bear.

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Conor Byrne |Christopher Testa

Leichhardt is Australia's 10th largest seat, larger than Greece. It's the only seat with an international border. Far north Queensland can suffer bushfires and cyclones — in the same day. The populations include the metropolitan tourist mecca of Cairns to impoverished remote Aboriginal communities. This seat is about to be vacated by incumbent LNP stalwart Warren Entsch. But both of the major parties think they have a shot. Conor Byrne reports.

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Jack McKay |Jack Mckay |Conor Byrne |Sarah Richards

Queensland Youth Justice Minister Laura Gerber has conceded a car she travelled in to a press conference should not have parked in a disability parking bay. Ms Gerber visited Cairns in the state's north on Tuesday morning, where she attended a police facility to make an announcement about her ministerial portfolio. The vehicle she travelled in, but wasn't driving, parked in a disability parking bay in a carpark located outside the police facility.

2 months ago | sott.net | Conor Byrne

A backyard attack by a cassowary has led to concerns some of the large flightless birds in Far North Queensland are growing aggressively accustomed to people feeding them. A man in his 70s was left bleeding by an adult cassowary at Cardwell, 150km south of Cairns, on Friday, Queensland's Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation (DETSI) said. A Queensland Ambulance Service crew took the man to Tully Hospital for treatment to a wound several centimetres long on the back of a thigh.