A bat carer in Central Queensland dedicates her time to rescuing, caring for, and rehabilitating hundreds of bats.

Rebecca Koller has almost 600 bats in her care in Kuranda and spends almost $1000 a week to maintain their care.

Around 23,000 spectacled flying foxes — about a third of the species' population in Australia — died in the Cairns area towards the end of last year during an extreme heatwave.

Detectives have charged eleven activists with trespassing in two south east Queensland locations.

The protesters will face 18 charges including trespassing and drug offences.

Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries Mark Furner says animal activists could face fines over $650 issued on the spot or after evidence is reviewed.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service is investigating the possibility of using drone technology to give people in remote Queensland quicker access to life-saving medical care.

The drones will be used to service vast areas of outback Queensland, that the RFDS would have trouble getting to.

The service would be used to deliver emergency supplies such as anti-venom or insulin.

Queensland Health is set to roll out a statewide trial which will allow women to access the pill when their prescription runs out without going to the doctors.

The trial will allow pharmacists to provide once-off repeat prescriptions of the contraceptive pill as well as antibiotics for urinary tract infections.

Health Minister, Steven Miles says Queensland Health would work with industry stakeholders to develop a trial.

Looking across the country, an investigation has revealed that in 2018 there were 116 cases of fraud and theft by the Queensland Department of Education staff.

115 of those cases were fraud and at least one was a case of theft.

Queensland’s Education Minister, Grace Grace, says “there were around 90,000 people employed in the Department of Education during 2018,” and “the overwhelming majority of these employees were honest and trustworthy in the use of departmental resources.

Historic Australian comedian Barry Humphries’ has had his name stripped from Melbourne comedy festival’s largest award following controversial transgender comments.

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival awards the most outstanding show ‘the Barry Award’, named after Mr Humphries in 2000, but have now renamed the award when the comedian came under fire for saying that being transgender is “a fashion”.

In International news, more information has emerged about the state of relics and artworks that were housed in Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.

It is reported that most of the important pieces that were centuries old were removed in time whilst others have been destroyed in the blaze.

The location of William Shakespeare’s home in London has been determined after a decade of researching historical records.

Historian Geoffrey Marsh began his search after an old theatre in east London, where the Bard’s plays were shown, was discovered in 2008.

"The place where Shakespeare lived in London gives us a more profound understanding of the inspirations for his work and life" said Marsh.

Shakespeare lived in what was known as the parish of St Helens, near today’s Liverpool St station.