A native title claim in the region where Captain James Cook made landfall after his ship crashed into the Great Barrier Reef in 1770 is among one of three to finally be settled by the Federal Court this week.
An inquiry into Queensland's child safety system has heard the system is made up of a "labyrinth" of meetings and bureaucracy, as carers and former children call for change.
More locally acquired cases have been confirmed with exposure sites now including Cairns Hospital's maternity ward and areas on the Atherton Tablelands.
Boat ramp users could soon be alerted to nearby saltwater crocodiles by a state government-backed warning system using sonar and artificial intelligence technologies.
Don't be fooled by the turquoise waters and bubbling streams — swimmers who ignore warnings at this popular Queensland tourism site risk being pulled into deadly subterranean caverns.
The child safety team responsible for a teenage boy who died while riding in a stolen car in Queensland did not speak to him in the six months before the incident, an inquest has been told.