When Australians flocked to beaches on the record-breaking scorcher of a weekend, many felt a burn of another kind, from a strange sea creature taking over the water. As bushfires raged in New South Wales, Queensland residents packed the sand and surf to soak up the late summer heatwave.
Boy, 12, 'forces woman, 23, to touch his genitals before pushing a 13-year-old girl into bushes and groping her' A boy, 12, has allegedly forced a woman to touch his penis and then pushed a 13-year-old girl into bushes in broad daylight. Police will allege the boy grabbed the 23-year-old woman's arm and forced her to grab his penis on Saturday at Riverway, Queensland, Townsville Bulletin reported.
A Turnbull government minister has accused the ABC of running "fake news" in its coverage of the Adani coal mine and treating regional Queensland like "flyover country". In a bizarre interview with the broadcaster's AM radio program on Thursday morning, Resources and Northern Australia Minister Matt Canavan said the ABC's coverage of an Indian finance ministry probe into the Adani group was "nothing but fake news".