Drink-driving mayor Karen Williams held a Zoom meeting with families who lost loved ones to drunk drivers before getting behind the wheel, losing control of her car and crashing into a tree.

Queensland school kids who suffered injuries after slipping on concrete, running into a basketball pole and getting into fights have been paid more than $1.2m in compensation. 

North Queensland is experiencing a “mystery” rise in cases of a potentially deadly soil-borne disease as concerned doctors search for a reason why.

And a Brisbane father has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm to his six-week-old baby son who is in hospital with serious injuries, including a skull fracture.

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