The only spinal unit in Queensland, based at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, is at capacity, depriving patients of specialised care.

The unit, for patients with spinal cord injuries that have no cure, has 40 beds that are “at capacity most of the time,” according to the unit’s director Dr Sridhar Atresh.

Legislative amendments will allow survivors of physical and psychological abuse in Queensland institutions to sue for damages.

A reverse onus on institutions will be introduced to a Bill currently before state parliament, and limitation periods in place for survivors to take legal action against an institution will be removed.

Attorney General Yvette D’Ath said “[institutions] will have have to prove they took all reasonable steps to prevent the sexual abuse of children in their care to avoid legal liability”.

Travellers along every south-east Queensland train line are facing significant delays this morning due to a signal fault. 

Train services are being delayed up to two hours on the Airport and Doomben Lines, and up to one hour on all other lines.

Queensland Rail’s Natalie Roach responded to frustrated commuters saying, “We’re really sorry for the impacts to our services.”

Ms Roach says there have been teams on site since 5:00am this morning, but they have not yet been able to fully recover the problem.

Kurdish refugees in South-East Queensland have been anxious over the new developments in the Turkish-Kurdish clashes happening overseas.

Kurdish families were resettled in Toowoomba after the 2011 Syrian war, but many still have families unable to flee from the area.

2-year resident of Australia Khaled Ali says he hasn’t heard from his family since Turkish forces invaded Kurdish territory two weeks ago.

Deep-sea explorers discovered two Japanese aircraft carriers that sank during the Second World War.

The aircraft carrier was one of the seven ships that fell in the middle of the battle. The battle in the middle was a major sea-air battle between the United States and Japan in 1942.

A Kaga ship was discovered last week, and the wreckage of another aircraft carrier, the Akagi, was discovered on Sunday.

Until now, no other ship sank in this battle has been found - the USS Yorktown in 1998.

In the past two months, at least 55 large elephants have died of starvation in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park due to severe drought.

Zimparks spokesperson Tinashe Farawo said: "The situation is very serious." "The elephant is dying of hunger, which is a big problem.”

The drought has greatly reduced the level of crops in Zimbabwe.

According to reports, in the ongoing economic crisis, one-third of the population needs food aid.

In August, a report from the World Food Program said that 2 million people in the country were at risk of starvation.

A Newspoll conducted for The Australian has found 59 per cent of 1634 voters polled last week are opposed to the repatriation from Syria of Islamic State wives and children who hold Australian citizenship.

Some 20 Australian women and 46 children are trapped in refugee camps in northern Syria, but the federal government has called the situation ‘too dangerous’ for defence troops to retrieve them.

A tribunal responsible for reviewing government decisions has received a record number of applications, meaning decisions now take longer to finalise.

An overwhelming majority of the applications are related to migrants and refugees, and decisions around the disability support pension represent most of Centrelink-related appeals.

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal received more than 60,000 applications for review in the past financial year.