Last year the Blackall Magpies rugby league club was celebrating the news that it was the NRL Grassroots Club of the Year - now it can say it is the best sporting club in the whole of Australia.

A VIDEO produced by QCL's Ashley Walmsley for a dinner in Brisbane last Friday has now spread to an international audience thanks to www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au and social media.

Six years after saving their son Isaac from a deadly snakebite, the Bain family at Toompine has lost him in tragic circumstances in Sunday's light plane crash at Cunnamulla.