Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of a 41-year-old Queensland woman ?at her home on Boxing Day

Emma Lovell was allegedly stabbed while fighting off a 16 and 17 year old at her property in in Moreton Bay, north of Brisbane, on Monday night.

Australian Correspondent Murray Olds says Lovell and her husband were in bed when their dogs started barking ... and they found two young men allegedly trying to rob them.

He says the couple, who have two kids, forced the teenagers outside ... but the woman was stabbed to death and her husband was stabbed in the back - but is recovering.