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.
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.
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".