THE search for a torpedoed World War II hospital ship in Queensland waters will start next month.

The search for a man missing since going for a swim on the Gold Coast will resume tomorrow.

EMERGENCY services have contained a grass fire and prevented three properties from burning in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

GOLD Coast police outsmarted a crashed motorist who tried to make a swim for it on Sunday.

THE Queensland Government has defended paying $440,000 and more in salaries to Queensland Education bureaucrats at the same time it had a bitter pay dispute with teachers.

POLICE have praised the behaviour of schoolies despite 30 arrests overnight.

TENS of thousands of schoolies have descended on Surfers Paradise, kicking off a week of celebrations on the Gold Coast.

THE biggest party night of the annual Schoolies celebrations is under way on the Gold Coast, with police expecting around 25,000 teenagers to pack into the Schoolies Hub on Surfers Paradise beach until the early hours of tomorrow morning.