Detectives are investigating whether the father of a nine-month-old baby found dead on a Gold Coast beach on Monday allegedly “sacrificed” the child, whose empty pram was found on the water’s edge near a Tweed Heads boat harbour.
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Child killers handed 'inadequate' sentences, advisory council finds
Current sentences for the manslaughter of a child don’t reflect community expectations and courts should be forced to consider the vulnerability of victims, a report by the Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council finds.
Tenants busted with drug labs can reapply for government housing
Queensland public housing tenants caught with drug labs can be evicted but don’t face a permanent ban, despite costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in clean-up costs.
Severe dust storm possible across NSW amid wild weather
Conditions are building for a dust storm that could make it all the way from the red centre to the coast, impacting Canberra and Sydney.
Baby girl dies after being taken to hospital in critical condition
Police investigate the suspicious death of a four-month-old girl from Logan, south of Brisbane, who was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
'I killed her': Police heard watch house confession, inquest told
Two police overheard a man locked in the Toowoomba watch house confess to the violent killing of teenager Annette Mason just days after she died in 1989, an inquest hears.
Sibling taken into care as parents questioned over Gold Coast baby death
The brother of a baby girl found dead on a Gold Coast beach on Monday is taken into care by the Department of Child Safety, as homicide detectives try to determine whether the baby died in NSW or Queensland before her body was dumped.
MS patients feel 'in control' again after immunotherapy trial
A world-first clinical trial has helped improve the quality of life of multiple sclerosis patients, with seven out of 10 participants reporting positive changes.
London calling for teen fashion designer
At age seven, Brisbane boy Connor O’Grady got his hands on his first sewing machine and now at 18, has accepted a position at one of the most eminent schools for design — the London School of Fashion — to study a Bachelor of Womenswear.
'It's disgusting': No help for unit owner trapped by motorway expansion
Pedro Ulloa has lived in his small unit for the last six years. But despite being self-sufficient, the 84-year-old is being forced to leave because of disruptions from the expansion of the Pacific Motorway.