Revealed: Four major anti-youth-crime measures to be fast-tracked
The banning of the sale of knives to children is set to be brought forward as part of a string of fast-tracked youth crime initiatives, Premier Steven Miles has announced.
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.
Katarina Carroll’s unprecedented move to defuse crime crisis
Premier Steven Miles has taken the unprecedented step of inviting the Police Commissioner to personally brief state cabinet on plans to tackle the state’s spiralling crime crisis.
50,000 a month: Shock statistics expose depth of state’s crime crisis
Assaults, break-ins and car thefts are on the rise in Queensland, contributing to the state’s highest crime rate in more than 20 years.
Prisoners in our own homes: Shock number of Queenslanders exposed to crime
Queenslanders feel less safe in their homes than they did three years ago, with almost 80 per cent either a victim of crime or knowing someone who has been. FULL SURVEY
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‘Want an inquiry’: Labor MP says colleague, courts must answer for youth crime
Maryborough’s MP has called for an inquiry into his government’s own Youth Justice Minister, her department and the judiciary as he fights for new laws to keep young car thieves locked up.
‘Stealing, smashing, screams’: What it’s like living next to youth hell house
Queenslanders living in fear in a city gripped by a youth crime wave have shared what it’s like to live next to a volatile residential care home as Maryborough’s MP calls for statewide closures.
‘Sick of it’: Emotions erupt outside court over triple fatal crash
An angry local waved a “no bail” banner outside the Maryborough courthouse and the city’s Labor MP says “hard questions” must be asked about youth crime in the region. VIDEO.
Want action on youth crime? Start by opening up the courts
If she’s serious on getting to the bottom of our youth crime crisis, the Premier needs to give the public and media access to youth court matters involving serious or violent offences, writes Terry Goldsworthy.
‘Name and shame these animals’: Dad slams appeal by son’s teen killers
The father of a murdered teen has hit out at Queensland’s “revolving door” youth justice system as his son’s juvenile killers – who were both repeat violent offenders – were granted anonymity as they appealed their conviction.
Violent teen offender finally runs out of chances, Premier challenges courts
A teenage girl who had amassed an extensive history of violent robberies and carjackings failed in her attempt to have her first ever convictions overturned.
‘She’s given up on Queenslanders’: Premier lashed as youth crime crisis spirals
The opposition has blasted the state government in the face of the youth crime crisis, as the mother of one of three people killed in a crash allegedly caused by a 13-year-old boy lashes out at the Premier.
Name, shame, open the courts: Police union’s youth crime bombshell
Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers says child criminals who kill people should be named and shamed and courts should be open to the media.
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