Editor’s view: Numbers just appalling as govt fails to arrest youth crime
Queensland’s youth crime crisis is not getting any better, and the statistics show that in black and white, writes the editor.
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.
Katter’s radical youth crime crisis solution: Send them to the bush
Katter’s Australian Party has launched a bold plan designed to intensively rehabilitate youth offenders as the state battles a crime scourge.
Editor’s view: Stop the excuses, act now on our youth crime crisis
There’s no point in parliament enacting laws to ensure our worst repeat offenders are not released to wreak havoc if the courts do not apply the legislation’s intent, writes the editor.
‘Generation of untouchables’: Courts attacked as crime ramps up
Both the Police Minister and our top cop have challenged courts to “use all the tools in their toolbox” to crack down on brazen and violent crims, as the opposition accuses the state of being in denial about the threat and frequency of crime.
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‘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.
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
PTSD, depression, anxiety: Grieving dad slams ‘biased’ support of young offenders
The father of a slain Sunshine Coast teen has slammed what he says is an imbalance in funding support after a slew of youth crime measures were announced.
Gang of thieves use ram service station doors with fire extinguishers
A group of at least 11 offenders took off with thousands of dollars of cigarettes and fled the scene in a convoy of three stolen vehicles. WATCH THE VIDEO.
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