Can you believe it’s been a year since Parliament’s infamous “cross your legs” incident? And the passing of the deadline shows it has finally blown over. THIS IS GEORGE STREET BEAT
A Far North MP has accused large out-of-care home providers of gaming the system to “rake in rake millions in profits” as the LNP makes good on a promise to investigate a “broken” Child Safety system.
More than 100 of the state’s most serious youth offenders are living in care alongside thousands of vulnerable children left to languish in a billion-dollar industry.
The Queensland government will reform the use of good character tests in rape and sexual assault sentencing, after the Opposition highlighted damning statistics.
The most significant investigation into Queensland’s “broken” child safety system in generations has been called to look at how suicidal and abused children are being exploited by the industry.
A staggering 92 per cent of District Court rape cases in the 12 months to June 2023 relied on a good character evidence, a report shows, triggering calls for the consideration to be banned.
Shareholders of a residential care provider received more than $5m last year in massive windfalls now firmly under the microscope. They’re not the only ones.
In the nearly seven months since the government took office Jarrod Bleijie has lost two of these critical staffers. THIS IS GEORGE ST BEAT
The state government has ditched an election pledge to continue funding for a service that provides free environmental legal challenges to farmers, Indigenous people and regional Queenslanders.
Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has recommitted to a controversial election promise, but the minister responsible is in no hurry to make it happen. VOTE IN OUR POLL
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