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Five-year-old Kyla Rogers was found dead on Monday night. (Queensland Police media)
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says there are lessons to be learnt after the death of a five-year-old girl and her Gold Coast family on Monday.
Ms Bligh says there will be a full investigation into the child abduction and deaths.
Police say five-year-old Kyla Rogers was taken by her father from her Robina home after her mother and a male friend were killed on Sunday night.
A child abduction alert was issued on Monday afternoon, seven hours after the bodies of Kyla's mother Tania Simpson, 31, and family friend Antony Way, 33, were found at the Robina unit.
A car containing the bodies of the child and her father, Paul Anthony Rogers, 40, was found near Casino, in northern New South Wales, on Monday night.
Ms Bligh has expressed her sympathy and says all aspects of the case will be examined.
"The loss of any life is sad but when it is a small child I think all of us feel it very emotionally," she said.
"There'll be lessons to be learned from this awful case and I am determined that we will learn them, whether it's among the police or anybody else who could have helped."
Police believe Kyla and her father were dead before the abduction alert was issued on Monday afternoon.
NSW Police Superintendent Greg Martin says there was a delay in issuing the alert because police were conducting a cross-border operation.
"There's many players involved and many considerations to consider as to the timing of releasing such information," he said.
"You have to weigh up that perhaps you may tip-off this person that you're after and they may do something that's tragic, which was the case in this case, but we weren't to know that."
Queensland Acting Superintendent Tim Trezise says it took time to establish the facts of the case.
"You can't release the alert unless you actually have some information to release in the alert," he said.
Police believe Kyla was asleep in the Robina home when Ms Simpson and Mr Way were fatally stabbed.
Neighbours reported hearing shouting and screaming in the early hours of the morning.
Officers say the girl was abducted by her father from the unit sometime over the weekend.
It appears the girl and her father died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Mr Trezise says Kyla's mother and father had planned to marry, before their relationship broke down eight months ago.
"I understand even wedding invitations had been sent out but unfortunately the relationship broke down prior to the wedding," he said.
"They had been managing a caravan park at Inverell. She left Inverell and moved to her parents place on the Gold Coast.
"He left the caravan park approximately one month after that so he had been absent from the caravan park for some months prior to this incident."
Counsellors are providing support for students, teachers and parents at Robina State School where the girl was in prep year.
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