The gunman accused of killing a Queensland policeman has died after being taken into custody.
Rick Maddison had been detained by police on a rural property at Seventeen Mile in Queensland's Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane.
That had ended a 21-hour siege after he allegedly killed policeman Brett Forte (fort) yestreday (mon).
Tony Wright of Queensland Police says police shot Maddison after he again shot at them.
A mother who killed three of her children and tried to kill a fourth by driving the family car into a lake has been jailed for at least 20 years.
37 year old Akon Guode was sentenced to a maximum of 26 years and six months with a non-parole period of 20 years over the deaths of her three children and attempted murder of a fourth.
The Sudanese refugee wailed in court as Judge Lex Lasry outlined the difficult personal circumstances she had experienced in the years before she killed the children.
In sentencing, Justice Lasry told the court he took into consideration her guilty pleas and the fact that she is likely to be deported at the end of her sentence.
The federal government has announced tough new laws that will ban registered child sex offenders from leaving the country.
If passed the laws would block access to passports for more than 3,000 lifetime registered offenders.
The crackdown is designed to stop convicted offenders from exploiting children overseas in so-called child sex tourism.
Foreign minister Julie Bishop says almost 800 people on the register travelled overseas last year, with roughly half heading to South East Asia
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