Queensland inquest: child protection case deprioritized due to caseworker workload

An inquest into the 2022 death of eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs, who died after being denied insulin by her religious parents, heard that her child protection case was not prioritized because the assigned caseworker was overburdened and may have been influenced by the family's upper-class presentation. The case highlights systemic failures in child protection triage, with the coroner examining whether resource constraints and bias contributed to the missed intervention.