A toddler is in a critical condition following a house fire in regional Queensland overnight.
The girl suffered burns to her face, head and chest after a fire tore through a family home in Hervey Bay just after 9pm.
Six other children as well as their parents were reported to be inside the home at the time.
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A toddler is in a critical condition following a house fire in regional Queensland overnight.(Getty)
The young girl is believed to have suffered burns to roughly 30 per cent of her body, QLD Police said.
A woman, aged in her 30s, also suffered burns to her arms but she is now stable.
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It failed, but the trial was extended at the end of last year to Ceduna in South Australia, the East Kimberly region and Goldfields in Western Australia and Bundaberg and Hervey Bay in Queensland. The whole of the Northern Territory and in Cape York are also slated to be placed on cashless welfare payments.
The CDC program forces welfare recipients, including disability and aged pensioners, to accept compulsory income management, administered by the private financial services corporation Indue Limited.
It means that 80% of the Centrelink payment is “quarantined”.
Rent, utilities and other direct debits are paid by Indue which, in turn, is being paid up to $10,000 per client by the federal govenrment to administer the scheme.