With 11 days down,and voting about to open,Queensland’s major party leaders are just two weeks from polling day – and the unrelenting spotlight has narrowed.
As a driver for hire,the 47-year-old was “an on-call victim” for the then teens,who stabbed him seven times during a robbery.
The party would change the way a child’s criminal history could be recorded and used in court. But experts say it won’t make people safer.
WA’s peak legal advocacy body has demanded the state review the youth justice system after two teenagers in one year took their own lives in Perth custody.
With just two parliamentary weeks due after October’s election,David Crisafulli’s new youth justice laws would be subject to only brief oversight,if he were to be elected premier.
Primary vote support for Queensland Labor has fallen to more than 20 percentage points below the LNP before October’s election,new Brisbane Times polling shows.
The Miles Labor government has hailed the first month of its 50¢ flat fare trial as a vote of confidence with just seven weeks to the statewide poll.
A West Australian deputy corrections commissioner has hired a lawyer following damning evidence at the inquest for an Indigenous boy who fatally self-harmed in custody.
For the second time,the government has folded under pressure on crime and an inability to sell its message. This is more than a political problem.
The expansion of arbitrary police metal detection searches form part of the Miles government’s latest effort to address community and political pressure on crime.
Practice makes perfect,as the saying goes. And there are few less-practised areas in Queensland politics than collaboration,as the youth justice blow-up shows.