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Taskforce Guardian rapid response officers are deployed to tackle youth crime last October.

Queensland’s crime-fighting Flying Squad triples in size to tackle hot spots

Almost 60 rapid response police officers will fly anywhere in Queensland to quash spikes in crime, the premier announced on Sunday.

  • Cameron Atfield

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Michale Chandler, 29, Kelsie Davies, 17, and Sheree Robertson, 52, were killed in a crash at Maryborough. (Supplied)

‘Nailed it’: Crisafulli backs bid to appeal against two sentences

Premier David Crisafulli said the sentences would have been harsher under the LNP, but “we owe it to those families, and to every Queenslander, to put up a fight”.

  • Savannah Meacham
The LNP’s election pitch coalesced into three documents over the past year: The Right Priorities, The Right Plan, and its most-detailed The First 100 Days. What comes next will be revealing for the next four years.

The new year set to reveal more about the new state government

Much of the LNP’s mostly small-target pitch, detailed before the election, will be ticked off in months. What then for a party wanting “generational” power?

  • Matt Dennien
Steven Miles says the party can rebuild under his leadership.

Labor accuses LNP of inflating project ‘blowouts’ to claim future wins

The LNP went to the election with a little-detailed promise of delivering projects on time and on budget – Labor has made the most explicit claim yet as to how.

  • Matt Dennien
Privacy for renters has emerged as a growing issue after high-profile data breaches involving real estates.

Qld real estate lobby calls for probe into ‘onslaught’ of tenancy law changes

The body wants a proposed productivity commission to review the social and economic impacts of a swathe of rental reforms.

  • Matt Dennien
The report noted the average daily number of kids in youth detention rose again in 2023-24 to 286 – 86 per cent were on remand.

Breach of bail drives lift in kids court numbers as detention strains

The Childrens Court president used a report to warn about the “struggle” with growing incarceration numbers – which the LNP expects new laws to push higher.

  • Matt Dennien
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Advocates met with LNP MPs before the passage of the “Making Queensland Safer” laws.

LNP’s ‘adult time’ youth crime laws pass parliament with Labor backing

While opposition MPs highlighted concerns raised by stakeholders, and the fast-tracked process, all supported the laws – though one is considering her future.

  • Matt Dennien
Labor’s shadow attorney-general Meaghan Scanlon.

LNP blocks Labor move for more scrutiny of youth crime laws

Parliamentary debate has begun over the government’s controversial proposed laws, with Labor trying – and failing – to have key parts delayed until early 2025.

  • Matt Dennien
Premier David Crisafulli’s election campaign was plagued by questions about how he would manage the differing views on abortion in his party, and the parliament.

‘Lost for words’: LNP bans parliamentary debate on abortion laws

Premier David Crisafulli’s election campaign was plagued by unanswered questions about how he would manage differing views in his party, and the parliament.

  • Matt Dennien
The Queensland LNP’s appointed parliamentary committee chairs.

The LNP MPs paid extra to lead scrutiny of the government’s new laws

While those elevated to chair parliamentary committees may get less attention than ministers or opposition frontbenchers, they wield a lot of influence.

  • Matt Dennien

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