The Latest Breaking News from Queensland Police Service

Queensland police are seeking urgent public assistance to locate four children taken by a man from a property north of Mackay who are feared to be at "significant risk".

The charges come after police intercepted a plane at Redcliffe Airport in 2020 and seized cocaine, large quantities of cannabis and $9 million in cash and weapons.

Queensland police hope the reward will generate new leads in the suspicious disappearance of central Queensland woman Michelle Lewis. The appeal has been made as part of National Missing Persons Week.

It was the barking of a missing man's dogs that led rescuers to find the 84-year-old North Burnett man, who had spent two nights in bushland.

After a decade of pain and the crushing news an inquest would not be held into her mum's death, Lili Greer making as much noise as she can: "Because if we don't take it seriously, it's almost like she's died for nothing".

An inquiry into Queensland police's response to domestic and family violence heard up to 40 per cent of an officer's time could be spent on domestic incidents.

Exclusive: Submission to state inquiry alleges Queensland police routinely hid domestic violence failures from coroner

Despite significant changes to policing since the murders of Hannah Clarke and Doreen Langham, advocates say pre-emptive measures need to be put in place that recognise family violence as domestic terrorism.

It is now three years since Katarina Carroll took on the job of Queensland' first female Police Commissioner, with the honeymoon period usually afforded to new leaders to settle in their new role evaporating with catastrophic natural disasters and a global pandemic.