News Wrap Up (Page 11)

A 13-year-old girl who fell into a month-long coma after falling head-first down a 10-metre cliff has awoken with no memory as a result of post trauma amnesia. Faith Butt, from Mathoura,

A poisons expert has warned parents of the potentially deadly risks of water beads or ‘jelly’ beads to children. Dr Rose Cairns, a poisons specialist at the NSW Poisons Information Centre

A special needs child has spent a day inside a bus at a Melbourne bus depot after he was forgotten during school drop-off. A seven-year-old boy attending Monash Special Developmental School

The appeal for a shorter sentence of a drunk mum, whose 15-year-old daughter was killed in a car crash after they played drinking games together, has been denied. Mum Janet

A workers’ union believe that the 12 protection staff facing disciplinary action for “errors of judgement” over the death of toddler Mason Jet Lee should not be made scapegoats of a

A microbiology expert has warned that soon antibacterial soaps will become ineffective because bacteria is already becoming resistant to the chemicals in it. Liz Harry from the University of Technology

Police have warned mothers against drink driving after three different mums were caught driving under the influence with children in the car or during school run. Three mums were charged with driving under the influence

A nine-year-old boy, who was playing in shallow water, has died after his father accidentally ran over him on a jet ski. Dad, Shane Parkes, 34, from Queensland, was driving

A five-year-old boy, who died while in foster care, has been found to have drugs, including heroin and diazepam, in his system.  Child protection sources have revealed that the boy,

A father has been found guilty of murder for leaving his 22-month-old son to die in a hot car two years ago. After 21 hours of deliberation in more than four

Celebrity parents Hamish Blake and Zoe Foster-Blake have been slammed for “sharenting” or posting photos of their two-year-old son, Sonny, all over social media. The Australian golden couple have been accused of

A mother has faced court accused of starving her now 14-month-old girl and used the girl’s plight to raise more than $15,000 through GoFundMe. The 27-year-old mother-of-four, from Brisbane, who cannot be

A new report has found that a quarter of childcare centres in Queensland failed to meet national standards. The Courier Mail reported that in a data released by an independent authority, more

The man who was accused of murdering Mildura toddler, Nikki Francis Coslovich, has been found not guilty. John Torney, 32, has been acquitted after the court found him not guilty of murdering