The bad weather is forecast to move towards the state capital, Brisbane, and the state of New South Wales.
In 2002, Patrick Corporation joined with Toll Holdings, a transport company, to buy the rail-freight business of the federal government and that of the state of New South Wales.
Late last week, the state of New South Wales announced an inquiry after a top policeman, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, accused the church of trying to silence investigations into allegations of abuse.
In the neighbouring state of New South Wales, rivers swollen by weeks of persistent rain are expected to start bursting their banks this weekend amid downpours across the region.
The State Forests of New South Wales, a government firm based near Sydney, has worked out a clever way to measure, and trade, the carbon dioxide stored in trees.
Virginia Judge, the minister for fair trading for the Australian state of New South Wales, announced this week that she was considering requiring artists such as Spears to include a disclaimer on tickets if parts of their show would be pre-taped.
The poor state of public transport and infrastructure generally played a large part in the ejection of Labor governments in New South Wales in March and in Victoria last November.
The New South Wales State Library says fragments of many lost languages exist in papers left by early settlers.
Tim Harcourt, an economist at the University of New South Wales, believes that the motor trade can prosper without state handouts as it shifts from the mass manufacture of yester-year to the niche research and development industry.
BBC: Australia car industry seeks revival amid slowing sales
For the uninitiated, the State of Origin is a series of three rugby league games played each year between Queensland and New South Wales.
Fanned by winds roaring towards the Pacific coast from the hot western plains of New South Wales, some of the worst bushfires Australia has seen have turned much of the state into an inferno, reaching the northern suburbs of Sydney itself.
Australia is a federal state, and most such decisions are made not by the federal government but by those of the six states (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania) and the two territories (the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, around Canberra).
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