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A mother who tripped and fell on her baby when a magpie attacked them in a Brisbane park is tortured by the loss of her perfect angel, the child's devastated aunts say.

Tears are flowing for five-month-old Mia, who was strapped to her mother in a baby carrier when the bird swooped them on Sunday.

Five paramedics who rushed to Glindemann Park at Holland Park West got Mia to hospital but she later died from severe head injuries.

Her death has sparked a wave of grief from strangers, who have so far donated almost $70,000 to pay for Mia's funeral and support her mother, Simone, and father Jacob, who witnessed the fall.

"They constantly doted over her, showered her with love, and shared her for all their loved ones to adore," aunts Katie, Sophie, Claudia and Steph say in a GoFundMe appeal.

"No words can begin to describe the torture Jacob and Simone are going through. A life cut so short, much sooner than any one of us expected. Mia was and forever will be the light of Jacob and Simone's lives."

Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner had ordered an investigation into the council's management of swooping birds at the park, after reports another user had officially reported an overly aggressive magpie at the same location.

One of the paramedics who rushed to the park has described the efforts of Mia's parents and others to help her.

"When we first turned up, yes, it was a really heightened and emotive scene," Tom Holland from the Queensland Ambulance Service said on Tuesday.

"The parents and bystanders all did a really, really fantastic job. They got us coming really quickly and allowed the little one to have the best possible chance."

Despite the efforts of paramedics at the scene and doctors at the Queensland Children's Hospital she could not be saved.

The council investigation will include a review of how council officers manage complaints about swooping birds.

"People are the priority here. Of course we protect out native animals, but protecting people is more important," the mayor said on Tuesday.

"We need to feel safe to be out walking and riding in our suburbs all year round, including in the six-to-eight-weeks of nesting season."

He said the council had installed almost 300 new warning signs on council land over the past two years and would install more if needed.

"This is an extremely tragic accident, and our heart goes out to the family involved," Mr Schrinner said.

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NSW has recorded another record number of daily COVID-19 cases but Premier Gladys Berejiklian insists she won't introduce harsher lockdown measures unless they have a proven impact on virus transmission.

NSW reported 356 new local cases of COVID-19, at least 97 of which were circulating in the community while infectious.

Four people have also died - a man in his 70s, a man in his 80s and a woman in her 80s, as well as a returned traveller in his 80s unlinked to the current outbreak. All were unvaccinated.

Infection numbers in NSW have remained stubbornly high despite an increasingly tight lockdown, particularly in Sydney's west and southwest.

Sydney and surrounds are in lockdown until at least August 28, while the Hunter, Byron Bay, Armidale and Tamworth are enduring snap lockdowns.

Ms Berejiklian said her government would be glad to consider further measures to limit movement and interaction, but few remained that were proven to reduce virus transmission.

Curfews were listed among this category.

She said that, given the virulence of the Delta variant and its prevalence among essential workers obliged to leave home, a focus on the rapid vaccination of locked-down communities was preferable.

However, compliance with health orders remains crucial.

It comes after a virus-positive Sydney man travelled to Byron Bay against the rules and purportedly refused to use QR code check-ins. The incident sent the northern rivers region into its lockdown.

"Policy positions that may have worked in the past aren't going to have effect with Delta, it's something we need to accept," the premier said on Tuesday.

"Short of not having authorised workers do what's necessary, it's really difficult to get to lower cases without that targeted vaccine strategy.

"We need to treat (Delta) differently, and NSW doesn't have any intention of putting in strategies that aren't going to work."

The death toll from the current outbreak now sits at 32. There are 60 COVID-19 patients in intensive care, with 28 ventilated.

Ms Berejiklian reiterated her government's aspiration remained "COVID zero", as per national cabinet, but also that NSW would consider partially easing restrictions once it reaches six million vaccinations.

About 4.6 million jabs have been administered so far, with 23.59 per cent of eligible NSW residents fully vaccinated.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard later said in a parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday that the premier's "six million jab" goal sought to give the community a sense of hope and encourage vaccination.

He emphasised the government would take expert advice before easing any restrictions post-August.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday said he wanted all Australians around the dinner table with their families on Christmas Day.

"We have one of the lowest death rates in the world from COVID and we want to be able to continue to achieve that as best as we possibly can as we continue through this suppression phase," Mr Morrison said.

Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant also revealed four of the eight residents at St George Aged Care Centre have caught COVID-19 from a staff member. All eight residents were fully vaccinated.

While locked-down Armidale and Tamworth have not recorded new virus cases, Dr Chant said new infections were uncovered in the Hunter. A case unlinked to the travelling Sydney man was also found in Byron Bay.

Dr Chant later told Tuesday's parliamentary inquiry a West Hoxton party in which almost every unvaccinated guest caught COVID-19 was a root cause of the virus' western Sydney prevalence.

"It was thought that cluster had been identified very early but there were issues around containment that weren't appreciated," Dr Chant said.

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The skull of a dinosaur uncovered in northwest Queensland has been dubbed as the closest thing to a "real-life dragon" by scientists a decade after it was discovered.

Australia's largest flying reptile was found near Richmond, in north Queensland, and is a pterosaur that used to prey on fish known to inhabit the no-longer-existent Eromanga Sea 100 million years ago.

Named 'Thapunngaka shawi', this species of pterosaurs were known as successful and diverse reptiles and were the first back-boned animals to take a stab at powered flight, researchers say.

Tim Richards, from the Dinosaur Lab at the University of Queensland's school of biological sciences, led a research team that analysed a fossil of the creature's jaw, which contained around 40 teeth.

Mr Richards says the the skull alone would have been just over one metre long and the dinosaur had a wingspan of around seven metres.

"It's the closest thing we have to a real-life dragon," he said.

"It was essentially just a skull with a long neck, bolted on a pair of long wings.

"This thing would have been quite savage. It would have cast a great shadow over some quivering little dinosaurs who wouldn't have heard them coming until it was too late."

The new species belonged to a group of pterosaurs known as anhanguerians, which inhabited every continent during the latter part of the Age of Dinosaurs.

It is only the third species of anhanguerian pterosaur known from Australia, with all three species hailing from western Queensland.

Dr Steve Salisbury, co-author on the paper and Mr Richard's PhD supervisor, said what was particularly striking about this new species was the massive size of the bony crest on its lower jaw, which it presumably had on the upper jaw as well.

"These crests probably played a role in the flight dynamics of these creatures, and hopefully future research will deliver more definitive answers," Dr Salisbury said.

The fossil was found in a quarry just northwest of Richmond in June 2011 by local fossicker Len Shaw.

The name of the new species honours the First Nations peoples of the Richmond area where the fossil was found, incorporating words from the now-extinct language of the Wanamara Nation.

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