Christopher is a multiplatform news reporter in Far North Queensland.
Originally from Adelaide, Christopher spent five years at daily newspapers in regional Victoria and Tasmania before he joined the ABC in 2019. He was a news reporter in Mildura and Ballarat before moving to the tropics.
John Büsst was a poet, artist, revered conservationist and friend of the prime minister, who campaigned for the Great Barrier Reef to be protected when many scientists hesitated to get political.
A court heard the boy held the woman's partner at knifepoint while she was raped by two other teenagers.
A saltwater crocodile has caused a commotion at one of Queensland’s most popular tourist islands, forcing snorkellers out of the water and a resort to ramp up safety precautions.
Emergency services were called to a remote track near a Far North Queensland goldfield but the 44-year-old died at the scene.
Topic: Accidents and Emergency Incidents
A manhunt in Far North Queensland has led to the arrest of a 34-year-old who police allege held a woman at gunpoint over several days before she managed to escape on Saturday morning.
Police are reassuring people about safety in the Cairns CBD after a 15-year-old girl allegedly stabbed and seriously injured a British tourist.
Emergency services spent two hours searching for the 22-year-old at a popular waterfall in the state's Far North before his body was recovered from the water.
Topic: Accidents and Emergency Incidents
Steve Sharpe and Louise Collier are the new caretakers of Low Isles, in the Great Barrier Reef. Joining them on the island this week is their son, who spent the first four years of his life in the tropical setting.
A sentencing judge says Michelle Kathleen Lawson lived the high life, spending a quarter of a million dollars on clothing and shoes, while her employers battled natural disasters and a plant disease.
Michelle Kathleen Lawson discussed the hardships of farming with the family that employed her for almost two decades while secretly taking from their accounts, a court has heard.
A coroner has heard Joanne Butterfield's telephone bill showed nine calls to another landline in the lead up to her 1998 disappearance but detectives did not speak with the man that number belonged to for more than two decades.
A coroner has heard evidence from witnesses who do not believe the Far North Queensland mother took her own life when she vanished in mysterious circumstances almost three decades ago.
A coronial inquest investigating the suspected death of Joanne Butterfield, who has not been seen since 1998, has heard evidence from two men who lived in the area where she was last seen.
A former Queensland police officer who led an investigation into missing mother Joanne Butterfield has told a coronial inquest he cannot recall why there was no DNA analysis of her personal belongings.
Skye Lemon has told a coronial inquest she felt a detective "committed" to finding out what happened to her mother dramatically changed his line of inquiry after he learnt what she told her mother before she went missing in Far North Queensland in 1998.
Forty years on from Paul Hogan's iconic role as Crocodile Dundee, tourism and production houses are still riding an economic high on its success. But could another box office hit be hard to recreate?
Media organisations, including the ABC, applied to the Supreme Court for a judicial review of the non-publication order originally made in the Cairns Magistrates Court in late May.
The operator of a Far North Queensland fishing charter company says there is still anxiety about the arrivals of suspected illegal foreign boats, despite Border Force responding quickly to a fresh arrival.
A criminal prosecution of two police officers accused of tasering and restraining a prisoner with a mental illness comes to an end after a judge finds they could not be guaranteed a fair trial.
The sighting of a redshank on the Cairns Esplanade is the talk of the birdwatching community. It is believed to be just the second time the species has been spotted in Queensland.
Only one part of the Queensland coast is expected to avoid passing showers today, while in most inland areas there is a reprieve from high fire danger conditions.
Andy and Callie Rigby embark on one of their favourite day trips, four years after surviving a head-on crash with a bus.
Topic: Road Accidents and Incidents
Two Queensland police officers accused of unlawfully restraining and tasering a prisoner in a watch house ask a court for a permanent end to criminal charges against them.
Savannah Spence Paige's family say they are "beyond devastated" after the 25-year-old's death in this week's horrific road crash. She is being remembered for having had a "smile that lit up every room".
Topic: Road Accidents and Incidents
Accused driver Jake Edward Warn is unable to instruct a lawyer as he remains "under the influence" following a fatal crash on the northern Cairns bypass that killed 25-year-old Savannah Paige.
Topic: Road Accidents and Incidents