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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

Bruce Saunders MP, Qld Parliament Question Time, Brisbane. Picture: Liam Kidston

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Assistant minister hoses down talk of defection over youth crime

Bruce Saunders has moved to assure Labor colleagues he would not defect to Katter’s Australian Party over the youth crime issue. VOTE IN OUR POLL

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Courier Mail State and Local government reporter Hayden Johnson Wednesday 18th October 2023 David Clark

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The poll numbers that show Miles has his work cut out on crime

In politics, perception becomes truth – and there’s a perception among Queenslanders that it’s only a matter of time before they join the list of youth crime victims, writes state political editor Hayden Johnson.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - SEPTEMBER 13, 2022.Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk listens to Deputy Premier Steven Miles as he speaks during a press conference at a construction site in Yeerongpilly, on Brisbane's Southside. The Government will stage a Housing Summit to address the urgency around multiple housing issues, beginning this Friday with an initial roundtable of key government and non-government stakeholders.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan Peled

Editor’s view: Game-changer that should cement Miles’s legacy

After nine wasted years by the Labor government, new premier Steven Miles has taken an approach to youth crime that could be a game-changer, writes the editor.

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5/2/2024:Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll talks about the investigation after the murder of Vyleen White, 70, of Redbank Plains, who was stabbed in the chest in the car park at Town Square Redbank Plains Shopping Centre pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/Courier Mail

Police & Courts

Katarina Carroll breaks silence over cop’s stand-down saga

Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll says she’s disappointed in how an officer’s standing down has been handled as talks with the union to resolve the issue begin.

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Palaszczuk's powerless laws as alleged killer driver's criminal history exposed.

Alleged killer teen’s criminal history exposes Premier’s ‘powerless’ laws

The teenager allegedly behind the wheel of a stolen car that killed three innocent people, including a 17-year-old girl, in Maryborough was known to police and under the watch of the state.

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Youth crime laws aren't working.

Real world shows Premier’s ‘strongest’ youth crime laws aren’t enough

The so-called “strongest” youth crime laws in the nation would have done nothing to prevent Sunday night’s tragic triple-fatal crash. More needs to be done, writes The Editor.

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk pictured making an announcement about the Tugun Satellite Hospital and also doing a walk through. Tugun Wednesday 3rd May 2023 Picture David Clark

‘Ask the judiciary’: Premier hits back on children’s court secrecy

Annastacia Palaszczuk has defended her government’s record on youth crime and sidestepped questions about greater media scrutiny of court cases involving young people.

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How many more have to die before Premier wakes up?

With 18 deaths in two years, there is no denying Queensland’s youth crime crisis has spiralled out of control. The Premier needs to stop playing politics and act, writes The Editor.

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Russeel and Ann Field say state govt responsible for youth crime crisis deaths.

‘Blood on their hands’: Shattered parents’ plea for youth crime intervention

In the wake of yet more deaths and the failure of an appeal to keep their son’s killer in jail longer, the parents of a high-profile victim of Queensland’s youth crime crisis say more innocent people will die unless the state government acts now.

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Matt FieldÃs parents Russell and Ann Field, outside the Supreme Court, Brisbane, on Tuesday 2nd May 2023 - Photo Steve Pohlner

‘More will die’ if youth crime laws not changed – teen crash victim’s parents

The parents of a man killed alongside his fiance and their unborn child by a teen in a stolen car have warned more innocent people will die if the government doesn’t urgently intervene in the state’s youth crime crisis. It comes after an appeal to increase the teen’s sentence was knocked back.

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‘This has struck a nerve’: Call for kids to be sentenced as adults for horrific crimes

Children should be sentenced as adults for horrific crimes like Maryborough’s triple-fatal crash, Queensland’s Police Union president says, adding “there is nothing we can do as police” and that parents and caregivers also need to be held more accountable.

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A horrific car crash on Sunday night in Maryborough killed three women and left a fourth in critical condition. Right photo: 7 News.

No surprise Qld youth crime has reached this latest dark point

Our social fabric is under siege, with youth crime accounting for more than 50 per cent of break and enters, robberies and car thefts. But the path to the current situation began many years ago, writes criminologist Terry Goldsworthy.

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Children’s human rights violated: Qld’s youth justice system slammed

A new report has slammed Queensland’s youth justice system as one of the worst in the nation for violating the rights of children, saying its focus on punishment and control goes against the state’s own Human Rights Act.

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Ascot residents Peter and Kim Falvey and there son Michael Falvey were woken in the early hours of this morning with three people trying to break-in to their Rupert terrace home. Ascot Friday 21st April 2023 Picture David Clark

‘Palaszczuk is responsible’: Publican demands action after terrifying break-in

A Brisbane man has revealed his horrific experience with youth crime, after his home was broken into in the early hours of this morning.

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