The death toll from a fire that ripped through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh has risen to at least 15, with another 400 people missing, 550 injured and about 50,000 displaced according to the United Nations refugee agency. 

Rohingya  people are a Muslim ethnic group of western Myanmar, the cause of the fire is still unknown.

Most of the people in the camps fled Myanmar in 2017 amid a military-led crackdown on the Rohingya  that UN investigators said was executed with "genocidal intent", charges Myanmar deny.

Bribie Island residents are worried that the island is too popular with holidaymakers and 4WD enthusiasts.

Residents are calling for a rethink of island tourism with increased traffic clogging the bridge to the mainland and putting turtle hatchlings at risk along the beach.

The endangered loggerhead turtles use bribie island beaches to lay their eggs and hatch their young.

Residents are being urged to evacuate low-lying areas in Beaudesert this morning as the Logan and Albert river catchments burst their banks.
River levels are easing across the upper reaches of the catchments causing floodwaters downstream to arrive this morning.

You can get more warning, rainfall and river information at www.bom.gov.au 

A number of campsites on Fraser Island are set to remain closed over the Easter break due to concerns over dingo attacks. 

Queensland’s Department of Environment and Science say that visitors interacting and feeding Dingos may lead to an increase in aggressive behaviour.

A 8-year-old boy was bitten on the leg by a dingo earlier this February and a man was fined $2,000 last week for throwing bait at two dingo pups.

Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins is leading an independent inquiry into the parliament workplace culture and she says a wide-range of people will be coming forward.

Last night, the commissioner said at a Senate hearing, submissions will be welcomed from current and former politicians, staffers and even  those who work in Parliament's cafes and gardens.

The comment follows Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s “get house in order” address in response to an allegation of former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins being sexually assaulted in a Ministerial office.

Delays have hit the building of the Australian Navy’s new patrol boat fleet with deficient aluminium bought from China.

Ship builders, Austal, gained the three hundred and fifty million dollar contract to build the Cape Class patrol boats.

Austal says most of its aluminium is sourced from China.

United States President Joe Biden is calling for tougher gun restrictions after a fatal mass shooting in the state of Colorado this Monday. 

Biden is urging the US senate to revise legislation that allows loopholes in firearm background checks. 

The shooting claimed the lives of ten victims and was the second mass shooting recorded in America in less than a week.

The rain sweeping through South East Queensland is providing hope to Stanthorpe residents as the Storm King Dam begins to fill up.

Drought has forced the town to bring in water by truck every day for the past 12 months to meet demand.

Despite the optimism the rain has brought, the Storm King Dam will need another six months of rain, or 550 megalitres of water, before deliveries can safely end.

The Queensland Government’s proposed overhaul of youth justice laws has youth workers concerned it may backfire. 

Youth Advocacy Centre CEO Janet Wight says the bill would put the system back 10 years as the changes were introduced with undue haste. 

With reforms including ankle bracelets and presumption against bail there is concern the youths would see the ankle bracelets as trophies, causing the opposite effect to their purpose.