Despite the cost of getting fluoride into the water being seven to 18 times less than the subsequent dental costs, the expense is seen as too high by a majority of Gympie councillors. The Gympie ...

In the dense rainforests of eastern Australia and some regions of Malaysia and Indonesia, grows a plant that has struck fear into both explorers and animals alike: Dendrocnide moroides, commonly known ...

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The Gympie-Gympie, a stinging tree native to Australia, delivers excruciating pain upon contact. Its fine hairs inject a neurotoxin causing burning, itching, and electric shock sensations lasting for ...

Reportedly, the plant, covered with hair-like stings, makes people feel they’re “being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time”. How poisonous can a plant be? That crown is taken by ...

WERE we not assured some time ago that the old revenue raising practice of situating police radar units down the side of hills was to be scrapped? If so, why then has an unmarked van, complete with ...

Damien Clint Kaestner's Gympie court appearance on Tuesday followed a disappearance from the Gold Coast, the court was told, after Kaestner had failed to appear at Southport Magistrates Court. The ...

One touch of the Dendrocnide moroides, known as gympie-gympie, can leave its victim in extreme pain for weeks One of the world's most venomous plants which causes pain like being "electrocuted and set ...

Residents of the Sunshine Coast hinterland, near Gympie, say the Palaszczuk Labor government will have a fight on its hands over the Borumba pumped hydro project planned for the region. With the ...

A British gardener has set up a cage inside his home to house what is considered to be the world’s most venomous plant. Daniel Emlyn-Jones, 49, decided to grow the notorious gympie-gympie – typically ...

Parts of South-East Queensland are experiencing the worst flooding in over a decade, with Gympie under evacuation order and the death toll reaching five. (Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images) (Getty ...

South-east Queensland has received a "scary" amount of rain, with more than 400 millimetres falling in less than 24 hours near Gympie. 300mm of rain fell east of Gympie in just six hours BOM warns ...