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A man is dead and his son is fighting for life after a crane collapsed at the bustling inner Brisbane precinct, Gasworks.

Ten children are "extremely lucky" to be alive after a concrete pontoon flipped and fell on top of them at a military-style boot camp at Samford, north-west of Brisbane.

A 10-year-old girl who was pulled unconscious from a backyard pool on Queensland's Sunshine Coast last weekend dies in a Brisbane hospital.

A 14-year-old boy dies in hospital from injuries suffered in an accident on his family's farm at Goondiwindi on Queensland's southern border.

Seriously injured Australian tourists will be airlifted to a Brisbane hospital after a head-on bus crash in Vanuatu's capital Port Vila injured 12 of their party and reportedly left three locals dead.

Two firefighters who attended the Boondall bus crash that killed 12 people and injured dozens say the memory of retrieving bodies is one that continues to haunt them.

The Transport Workers Union is calling for tougher penalties for those attack bus drivers with a survey showing 97 per cent have been abused.

Police are concerned about Dreamworld's plan to reopen tomorrow as the theme park is still a crime scene, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says.

A Brisbane woman says Dreamworld staff "pushed off" her concerns when her raft became stuck in the Thunder River Rapids ride which killed four people, telling her "all the empty rafts get stuck there".

A 13-year-old Sunshine Coast boy remains on life support after he was accidentally hit on the head with a golf club while hunting for cane toads on the weekend.

Village Roadshow's theme parks, Warner Bros Movie World, Sea World and Wet'n'Wild get a clean bill of health by Queensland Government safety inspectors, the company's chief executive says.

The Brisbane City Council is investigating the reason for a balcony collapse that injured nine people during a party in the Brisbane suburb of St Lucia overnight.

A man dies after falling into the Brisbane River when the motorbike he was riding hit a concrete barrier on the Riverside Expressway, police say.

A quarter of all drownings in Australia happened in Queensland in the 2016/17 financial year, with the state recording a 9 per cent increase compared to the same period 12 months earlier.

Tributes pour in for 15-year-old Ben Shaw, who died in hospital after being crushed while trying to lift about 100 kilograms at a Brisbane gym, as his family revealing his organs will be donated.

Two instructors and a 54-year-old woman are dead after what is believed to be a mid-air collision between tandem and single skydivers at Mission Beach, with police saying it appeared their parachutes "failed to deploy correctly".

An 81-year-old man and woman die in a three-vehicle car crash south of Brisbane the latest in a string of horror incidents on Queensland roads that have claimed the lives of nine people since Friday afternoon.

A 54-year-old man has died in "absolutely shocking" circumstances after falling into a woodchipper on a rural property at Gympie, north of Brisbane, police say.

Investigators return to conduct searches and seize several items, after police described the scene of the man's death as "horrific" when they attended in November last year.

Since she broke her back in a horrific skydiving accident, Emma Carey has taught herself to walk again and discovered a positive perspective on life she is determined to share with others.

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