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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

Taxi drivers and personalised transport drivers are refusing jobs due to safety concerns amid the youth crime crisis plaguing the state. (Insets: Alwyn Dellow and Vick Vivek)

‘Just bulls**t’: Taxi, Uber drivers’ fears amid youth crime crisis

Taxi and rideshare drivers are refusing jobs due to safety concerns amid the youth crime crisis plaguing the state, exacerbating driver shortages. One driver has spoken of his alleged assault, calling the police reaction “bulls**t”.

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Revealed: How youth gang members are ordering attacks while detained

Juvenile gang members are contacting each other from inside Queensland’s youth detention centres to orchestrate attacks against fellow prisoners and staff, it can be revealed, cheating the system to do it.

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Police & Courts

Youth crims’ bail breach blow-up: The new data that will terrify Qld families

New data has revealed an astonishing number of bail breaches by young Queensland criminals who are roaming the streets “freewheeling” with no consequences.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - MAY 1, 2024. Queensland Police Minister Mark Ryan speaks during a press conference at Parliament House in Brisbane. Picture: Dan Peled / NCA NewsWire

ExclusiveQLD Politics

Qld’s $1.5m fine threat for social media giants behaving badly

Social media platforms can be hit with fines of up to $1.5m for failing to remove videos glorifying crime or violence in Queensland, under harsh new proposed takedown laws.

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Dan Walker with his Dutch Shepherd Xee who is a security guard for Chelmer, Sherwood and Graceville.Picture: Nigel Hallett

Chilling warning as ex-Army security guard patrols blue-chip Brisbane suburbs

Terrified residents in affluent Brisbane suburbs are forking out thousands a week on a private security guard and his highly-trained dogs to deter ‘out of control’ youth criminals.

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Poll bombshell: Steven Miles dealt blow as Qld drowns in fear

Premier Steven Miles says the state government has ‘more police in the field than ever’ despite brutal polling revealing even Labor voters have lost faith amid the crime crisis. SEE THE POLL RESULTS

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

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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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

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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‘Public has the right to know’: Miles set to throw open courts

Families of victims killed by youth offenders will be given greater access to the courtroom, and journalists will be able to report what happens, under a commitment by Premier Steven Miles to rewrite controversial laws restricting scrutiny.

Minister for Health and Ambulance Services Yvette D'Ath at Laidley Hospital, Sunday, December 11, 2022 - Picture: Richard Walker

Editor’s view: D’Ath goes full circle – you couldn’t make this stuff up

The attorney-general who in 2016 sponsored restrictions to the principle of open justice is now tasked with undoing them, writes the editor.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - FEBRUARY 13, 2024.Queensland Premier Steven Miles speaks during Question Time in Parliament House in Brisbane. Picture: Dan Peled / NCA NewsWire

Public has had a gutful and Miles is right to question the judiciary

Yes, there’s a separation of powers, but politicians should be able to question bewildering judicial decisions, writes Robert Schwarten.

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OpinionMike O'Connor

Screenshots as street gangs linked to murders and violent crimes across Brisbane boast about their brazen actions online in rap music videos, dissing other gangs which often include members as young as 12 years old. Source: YouTube

This is different. This cuts to the very core of life in our city

This has been a long time coming but nothing that has been done has lessened the steady erosion of the right of people to feel safe in their homes or on the street, writes Mike O’Connor.

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