Antonia O'Flaherty

The Queensland government has made several announcements in a bid to address growing concerns around housing affordability and supply. Here's a breakdown of some of the key changes in the works.

Students are missing out on elective subjects and teachers are taking on subjects they are not qualified to teach, because of significant staff shortages at some state schools. 

Damage assessments will be carried out today in parts of southern and south-east Queensland, after days of torrential rain.

The cyclone is currently a category one but is expected to cross the coast as a category two system on Thursday night, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. 

The system is now forecast to cross the coast late on Thursday between Cardwell and Airlie Beach.

A Woolworths Metro in the Brisbane suburb of Teneriffe is spray painted with profanities surrounding the Australia Day controversy, with the apartment building above evacuated after a flare was set off.

The review was carried out following allegations a former Gold Coast childcare worker allegedly abused 91 girls in Brisbane, Sydney and overseas.

The 20-year-old man is recovering in hospital after being bitten by the shark while swimming south of Gladstone.

Paramedics have assessed at least 60 people after a truck and bus collided on the Pacific Motorway south of Brisbane on Wednesday morning.

Queensland's workplace safety regulator has urged the increased vigilance of dive operators after the deaths of two tourists in their 70s on snorkelling trips in a matter of weeks.

Palestinian supporters turn out in their hundreds in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney for another week of action, as families of those taken hostage by Hamas speak of their loss at a Sydney Jewish Synagogue.

Hundreds of thousands of RACQ customers were promised discounts on their insurance premiums, but a court has found they missed out on more than $86m in savings.

The South Australian man, who was found unresponsive while snorkelling, was pulled out of the water, but attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.

Tyler Whitton was still legally a child when he went to work at a Brisbane construction site for the final time.

The life and legacy of Labor giant Bill Hayden was honoured at a state funeral service in his hometown south-west of Brisbane today. 

The number of Queenslanders hospitalised for COVID-19 has more than doubled in three weeks, prompting the state's top doctor to urge people to get booster vaccinations for the virus.

The rate of stillbirths is higher in migrant, refugee, and First Nations communities — up to twice the rate of the general population.

After voting in favour of the First Nations Treaty Institute and truth-telling inquiry that passed parliament five months ago the Queensland Liberal National Party yesterday withdrew its support for a Path to Treaty.

The children's identities were previously considered cold cases — some decades old — with not enough distinguishable clues in the online abuse material seized by authorities to identify them.

She thought it was a scam phone call, but it was a mother's worst nightmare, her daughter was an alleged victim of a paedophile child care worker.

The bodies of Tayla Cox and 11-week-old daughter Murphy were found by police on Thursday morning.

Queensland Police Service has purchased 65 Taser 10s, a model the state government calls the "latest state of the art taser technology".

Deputy Premier Steven Miles says the Queensland government is also setting a target for 20 per cent of new builds to be social or affordable housing. He says the government is supporting additional development in West End. 

The ABC has confirmed that one of the man's employers was a childcare centre associated with a tertiary facility.

The Gold Coast man, 45, has been charged with 136 counts of rape and 110 counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10.