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Enough is Enough

Queensland newspapers join forces with a message for our politicians, on behalf of our communities. This is not the state we want – one in the grip of a youth crime epidemic so widespread that readers from the border north to the Cape live in fear that it will be their car, their home or their life that is taken next.

Enough is Enough

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Police & Courts

‘They are getting smarter’: Mum loses three cars in three years to teen thieves

A Queensland mother is scared to live in her own home after having to watch a livestream of juvenile offenders who stole her car, torched it, and boasted to social media as they drove at lethal speeds.

Screenshots as juvenile offenders are giving crimes different values and trying to outdo each other on social media to climb the criminal ladder.

VideoPolice & Courts

Sick social media games revealed as city grapples with youth crime chaos

Shocking online discoveries have revealed how juvenile offenders are using social media to climb the criminal ladder, as a special investigation uncovers young criminals’ activities in the state’s most crime-riddled city.

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Miles to Meta: Enough of this shameless promotion of youth crime

Premier Steven Miles will write to social media giant Meta to raise his concerns about its platforms’ “shameless” promotion of violent crimes.

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Police & Courts

Katarina Carroll: Video shows ‘definitely the right decision’ to stand cop down

The outgoing police commissioner says she believes standing down a Gold Coast cop was “definitely the right decision” having reviewed footage of a pursuit.

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No consequences: Opposition slams ministerial ‘side-shoe shuffle’

The Opposition has slammed Labor’s Cabinet reshuffle as failing to punish strife-torn ministers enough for their mounting failures.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - MAY 2, 2023. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk speaks at the launch of the Love Â Control campaign, as part of the Palaszczuk Government's ongoing efforts to tackle domestic and family violence. Picture: Dan Peled / NCA NewsWire

Premier’s shake-up: Rising star takes housing, Youth Justice Minister confirmed

Fixing Queensland’s housing crisis has been handed to the youngest MP in cabinet, while child safety and youth crime will be split between two ministers, in a major frontbench shake-up.

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Inside the reshuffle set to shake up Queensland's Labor government.

‘Couldn’t have waited’: Inside story of Labor’s shock reshuffle

A shuffle of the Palaszczuk’s government’s frontbench had been building behind the scenes for weeks, but it wasn’t just voters who were caught out by the news of a major Cabinet shake-up.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - MAY 2, 2023. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk speaks at the launch of the Love Â Control campaign, as part of the Palaszczuk Government's ongoing efforts to tackle domestic and family violence. Picture: Dan Peled / NCA NewsWire

Editor’s view: The reshuffle Labor had to have to survive

A reset on the state’s three most critical issues is necessary, and it is good the Premier has finally come to acknowledge it, writes the editor.

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Peter Dutton vows to take on tech giants for enabling youth offenders through social media.

‘No end in sight’: Dutton blasts tech giants over youth crime

The youth crime crisis in Queensland is ‘out of control’ and being inflamed by social media, Opposition leader Peter Dutton has declared, as he demands tech giants step up.

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OpinionJessica Marszalek

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Palaszczuk already losing youth justice conversation so why not try to control it?

Annastacia Palaszczuk doesn’t want a probe into Queensland’s youth crime problem because she’ll worry the LNP will seize on any negatives and use them against Labor in the election, writes Jessica Marszalek.

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***FILE IMAGE*** ABS data from the Survey of Income and Housing 2017?18 on Australian housing occupancy, costs and affordability is set to be released today.*** An aerial image shows houses located in the New South Wales suburb of Balmoral (foreground) in the New South Wales city of Sydney, Sunday, 17 February 2019. (AAP Image/Sam Mooy) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

More than 70 serious youth crims shacked up in our suburbs

More than 70 of Queensland’s serious youth offenders are living in “melting pot” state-run care homes on suburban streets where they’re enticed into committing crimes, as facilities struggle to cope.

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Queensland Police officers conduct a wanding operation, searching for concealed knives and weapons on patrons in the Cairns Safe Night Precinct using newly commissioned metal detector wands. Picture: Andrew McKenna

Top brass join officers to keep knives off the streets of Cairns

Queensland Police’s top brass have joined in a demonstration of powerful new laws that give police the ability to stop and search members of the public in Cairns’ Safe Night Precinct. Here’s what they found.

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‘What are they getting up to?’: School youth crime fears

A major school issue has been linked to Queensland’s youth crime fears in another worry for the state.

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Members of the Palm Island night patrol group talking to youths in the town centre. Picture: Supplied

‘Massive impact’: Community-led patrols combat youth crime

Residents on Palm Island have taken spiralling youth crime issues into their own hands with a new night patrol group that’s already seen an “extraordinary” reduction in property crime.

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