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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

Former youth detention worker says serious repeat offenders should be locked up in watch houses in the first instance, Richlands. Picture: Liam Kidston

Police & Courts

I worked in a youth jail. What happens inside will leave you astounded

A whistleblower has provided a rare and explosive insight into a youth detention centre, exposing what goes down inside what he likens to “holiday camps”.

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Queensland Minister for Child Safety, Youth and Women, Di Farmer gets tough on youth crime.

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‘We’ll have more crime’: Roundtable to zone in on watch house plan

Locking up kid criminals in adult watch houses will lead to further threats of crime across the state, exasperated community leaders warn ahead of a youth justice roundtable.

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‘Incompetent’: Enough is enough over youth crime ‘stunt’

The Palaszczuk government’s tough on youth crime stance has been accused of falling flat – and many seem to agree. JOIN THE CONVERSATION

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Di Farmer and David Crisafulli

Minister on soft youth sentences: ‘Don’t blame us, blame the courts’

Youth Justice Minister Di Farmer says it is up the courts, not politicians, to impose harsher sentences, amid damning new Queensland revelations.

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OpinionKylie Lang

HOLD COURIER MAIL EMBARGO 25TH FEB Police assisting a DV victim, youth crime in Mount Isa. Picture: Liam Kidston

Social media hero-worship of delinquents must be squashed

A move to dim the bragging rights of brazen juveniles by forcing social media platforms to take action on posts depicting crime is welcome, but may prove as hard to police as our youth criminals, writes Kylie Lang.

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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk addresses media at the Toowoomba Police station, Friday, February 24, 2023. Picture: Kevin Farmer

Premier pushes unproven strategy to tackle youth crime epidemic

A report quietly released this week has failed to back Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s latest plan to tackle youth crime.

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Queensland mayors call for liquor bans to curb crime

Mayors in Queensland’s crime-hit north are calling for NT-style liquor restrictions to be introduced to curb alcohol-fuelled crime in their cities.

HOLD COURIER MAIL EMBARGO 25TH FEB Group of youth in Mount Isa, youth crime in Mount Isa. Picture: Liam Kidston

Editor’s view: Wakeup call as youth crime grips entire state

It took the tragic murder of a young mother in the southeast for the state government to begin acknowledging the extent of regional juvenile crime, writes the editor.

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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk meets with TRC Mayor Paul Antonio at city hall, Friday, February 24, 2023. Picture: Kevin Farmer

‘Can’t be everywhere’: Premier defends absence from crime-hit Qld city

After days of requests, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has made the trip up the Toowoomba Range to visit victims of the escalating youth crime crisis, defending her apparent absence from the city as she asks to hear locals’ own accounts.

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Police & Courts

HOLD COURIER MAIL EMBARGO 25TH FEB John Doyle in his Mount Isa GYM, youth crime in Mount Isa. Picture: Liam Kidston

‘Running off fumes’: Kids come to gym desperate for direction

They come to his gym hungry, dehydrated, malnourished or high, but former NRL player John Doyle is determined to help Mt Isa’s youth find a way out of their disadvantage.

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Youth crime crackdown ‘threatens human rights catastrophe’

The state’s youth crime crackdown threatens a surge in children ion already-crowded detention centres and even adult watchhouses, critics say.

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Police & Courts

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Teen gangsters dodge conviction as judge outlines ‘worst violence’ he has seen

A judge has characterised a video played in court the worst violence he has ever seen in his 18 years in his role, as nine youths were sentenced over a pair of brutal bashings in inner Brisbane.

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Fears ‘abhorrent’ youth crime move could trigger ‘human rights emergency’

The state government’s decision to breach human rights law to put its new youth crime measures in place is “abhorrent” and could trigger a “human rights emergency in a broken system” according to Amnesty International.

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Teenagers in underpass tunnel.Photo Nicholas Falconer / Sunshine Coast Daily

Govt slammed for lack of public consultation time on youth crime

The state government has been accused of “not prioritising” youth justice for allocating less than three days for public submissions on its new youth crime legislation.

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