Lives will continue to be lost among rural Australia's aviation sector unless there are major changes in training, safety and maintenance standards, according to a commercial mustering pilot who has gotten out of the industry because he didn't like what he was seeing.

A giant cow once iconic on the Sunshine Coast has found a new home on the Darling Downs where it will play a role in a dairy museum.

Calls for a parliamentary inquiry into Queensland's devastating bushfires have been rejected.