Pauline Hanson slams ‘twisted’ youth crime social media notoriety

Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson is demanding students be taught about the consequences of breaking the law and hooning, as well as the devastation felt by victims, in school.

Students need to be taught in school about the long-term consequences of breaking the law and hooning, as well as shown the devastation felt by victims of crime, Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson is demanding.

She said youth crime was escalating as young people “performed for some twisted form of credit on social media platforms”.

She said increasing fines and demerit points had not worked to lower the road toll, and the young hoons were making it worse.

“The government needs to get in on the ground floor at schools and teach children the long-term consequences of this sort of offending – the loss and devastation experienced by the families of victims, and how criminal records will follow offenders throughout their life and bar them from work, travel and other freedoms as long as they live,” Senator Hanson said.

“Is brief notoriety on social media really worth a lifetime of mediocrity?”

Pauline Hanson speaks to the media at Victorian Parliament. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nicki Connolly

Senator Hanson said the state government’s actions to deal with the escalating youth crime crisis were not working.

“The government must take responsibility for the deaths and damage these criminals cause,” she said.

“These crimes are becoming more brazen, performed for some twisted form of credit on social media platforms, and this is increasing the risks to police and other people on the road.

“These offenders need to be off the streets and in custody where they cannot harm law-abiding Queensland motorists.”

She also called for more funding for regional roads, saying areas outside Queensland’s city centres were over-represented in fatal crashes.