Queensland police have charged a 37-year-old Cairns woman with murdering eight children, including her own four sons and three daughters.
Police in a statement said the woman was charged in a bedside hearing before a magistrate in Cairns hospital on Sunday.
She remains in police custody in hospital, where she has been treated for stab wounds.
The victims have been formally identified as the woman’s daughters aged 12, 11 and two years, her sons aged nine, eight, six and five, and her niece aged 14.
Their bodies were found at a house in the north Queensland city’s suburb of Manoora on Friday.
