The crown prosecutor is seeking a 15-year prison sentence for the parents of Elizabeth Struhs after they were found guilty of ...

I am often amazed at the harm done by religious nutters, particularly when they employ their 'religion' as a replacement for medicine. Here is a truly horrific example. It has been reported that all ...

A Queensland boy has died after being forced to live in a cardboard ... who was left to die when her parents and members of a ...

The religious group dubbed “The Saints” was led by Brendan Luke Stevens, 63, who was also found guilty following a judge-only ...

The wait for a 14-strong religious group to be sentenced for killing an eight-year-old girl after withholding her medication ...

North Queensland continues to be battered by heavy rain, with the slow-moving monsoonal trough potentially bringing another 700 millimetres of rain before it dissipates over the weekend.

Ingham residents have described the ordeal of being cut off from supplies and electricity as flooding continues to wreak ...

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Severe flooding in Queensland has forced thousands of people to evacuate, cut power to homes and washed away sections of a vital highway. In Townsville, one of the hardest-hit cities in the region ...

SYDNEY – One person died on Feb 2 in north Queensland amid heavy flooding, regional authorities said, urging thousands of people to move to higher ground due to torrential rains. The Queensland ...

Impacted areas are dotted along the 735-kilometer (456 mile) stretch of the Queensland coast from Cairns – a gateway to the Great Barrier Reef - to Mackay, with the city of Townsville ...