More than 6800 drivers have been stung for speeding through school zones in Queensland in just the first six months of this year, with 57 recording speeds more than 30 kilometres over the limit.

Queensland mothers are pretending to have dinner so their kids can eat in a shocking poverty crisis that is deepening due to rent assistance covering only one quarter of the actual rent bill.

The annual cost of child care has risen by up to $1000 in some parts of Queensland in the year since March 2020, with even parts of central Queensland copping big price hikes.

And a Middlemount man attacked by a shark during a Whitsundays buck’s weekend has compared the ordeal to being bitten by the family cat.

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