Kate McKenna

The court heard the girl has "repeatedly" expressed the view that she does not want to continue with the pregnancy.

The girl's father says he felt like he "died inside" when the childcare centre phoned to say an educator had "used legs to kick" his daughter.

The Queensland coroner describes the case of a baby — known to child safety authorities — who starved to death while his mother and her partner were on a drug binge as "utterly tragic".

An unnamed hospital applied to the Supreme Court for orders after being asked to perform a surgical termination for the child who was about nine weeks pregnant.

Convicted child sex offender Andrew William Vassel was employed as a gardener and maintenance man at a childcare centre near Brisbane.

A Queensland review into child sexual abuse responses has heard defamation fears and a focus on an organisation's "reputation" may act as a deterrent to raising concerns about childcare staff.

A Queensland man serving a life sentence for the 2010 abduction and murder of a Bundaberg schoolgirl has admitted to writing "sadistic" and "depraved" child abuse stories while behind bars.

A Queensland man accused of murdering his wife and staging a lawnmower accident to cover it up has been granted bail.

A Queensland man accused of murdering his wife and staging a lawnmower accident to cover it up has been granted bail.

Years after two brothers with disabilities were found naked and locked in a room in a Brisbane home, the Queensland Education department has been urged to make sure suspicions of harm are "appropriately recorded".