Drivers who head north along the beach from Noosa North Shore without a permit will be hit with fines after numberplate recognition cameras begin operating 24 hours a day.
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Rangers are searching for campers believed to have sparked a large bushfire on Fraser Island that has forced the evacuation of numerous camp sites and a ranger station after being started on October 14.
Tough coronavirus travel restrictions placed on Fraser, Stradbroke and Moreton islands off South East Queensland are easing on Saturday for day trips but people cannot go camping there just yet.
A large bushfire is continuing to burn through swamp and bushland on North Stradbroke Island, off Brisbane, ahead of an expected influx of 8,000 school holiday visitors.
Find out what the Queensland Redistribution Commission's proposed boundary changes mean for your electorate, and where the lines and names are changing.
A child protection advocate wants the Governor-General to strip high-profile Queensland criminologist Paul Wilson of his Order of Australia medal following his conviction on child sex offences.