A 6-year-old boy has been bitten on the leg by a dingo on Fraser Island.

On Saturday evening the boy ran ahead of his family to the top of a sand dune where he met a pack of four dingoes.

Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics treated and stabilised the boy for transport before he was airlifted from the Eurong helipad.

The Department of Environmental Science website urges parents to stay within arm's length of their children at all times and avoid letting children run ahead.

The Palaszczuk government’s anti bikie laws of 2016 have failed to convict anyone of consorting in the last financial year.

Over 700 warnings were issued statewide for people habitually consorting with two or more convicted offenders.

LNP leader Deb Frecklington says the laws, once described as ‘the toughest and most effective’ disestablishment laws in the country, are too ‘soft on crime’.

Charity T shirts sold by British pop group The Spice Girls to raise funds for Comic Relief’s ‘Gender Justice’ campaign are revealed to have been created under poor working conditions in Bangladesh.

The female factory machinists say they work in inhuman conditions where they are paid 35 pence an hour, work over 16 hours a day and are verbally abused by their superiors.

The Zimbabwe government warns the country’s violent crackdown on protesters last week are merely a taste of things to come, according to a new statement by president spokesman George Charamba

12 were killed and over 600 were detained in rallies protesting a 250% increase in the cost of fuel, pricing out much of the population and creating further financial strain on citizens that already struggle to purchase basics such as food and healthcare.

Research shows invasive pests are the greatest threat to Australia’s most endangered species.

Andy Sheppard, a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO working on invasive species management, says foxes and feral cats have spread rapidly and are threatening the extinction of native species.

As Australia continues to grow its international trade in commerce and tourism,  the challenge for Australia’s biosecurity system to keep out unwanted plants, animals and pathogens grows ever greater.

New South Wales music festivals will have to adhere to new, targeted regulations after a string of five overdose related deaths occured in the last year.

Minister for Racing, Paul Toole, says the regime will put the onus on festival organisers to assess and proactively manage safety risks.

The new scheme, which will encourage chill out zones and readily accessible water, will be introduced on March the first.

Electric scooter incidents are becoming common in Brisbane after new data reveals emergency services responded to about 60 scooter-related incidents since November last year.

Queensland Ambulance Service bicycle response team paramedic Madeline Shield says incidents happen due to people speeding, riding without a helmet, doubling-up, or driving under the influence.

A failed green energy project at Kogan Creek power station near Chinchilla is costing Queenslanders jobs and tens of millions of tax dollars after French government owned solar company Areva Solar KCP was liquidated.

Plans to build a solar plant with Darling Downs civil engineering firm Nortask were scrapped in 2016 after Areva Solar reported fast moving clouds and technical issues were preventing progression.

Four people were found clinging to rocks after being swept away at far North Queensland gorge.

A man and woman in their 40s along with a male teenager and a boy were swept away just after 4.15pm on Thursday at Mossman Gorge, almost 80 kilometres north of Cairns.

Swift water rescue crews managed to get the four people back to dry land after they were stranded on two rocks when they were swept away by the strong current.