Qld Queensland State Election 2024

[Saint]

I was in Qld when those cuts were made. These old dudes at DTMR all got made redundant, bought boats and then were put on as contractors within weeks.

 

[campbell]

Fair dinkum, they have nfi.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/qld-politics/qld-pill-testing-sites-to-be-axed-as-patients-test-legal-medications/news-story/e4636399ed44277cf91d8dc6b6240ca4

 

[Gough]

They'd rather see kids die than admit that that the war on drugs is a farce.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

They'd rather see kids die than admit that that the war on drugs is a farce.

That's the conservative way. Feelings over facts!

 

[Gough]

Queensland to change youth justice laws after supermarket stabbing

Premier David Crisafulli says there will be further changes to youth justice laws in the face of community outrage over a stabbing west of Brisbane on Monday.

www.abc.net.au

Can't even get their stupid policy right in the first place.

 

[Chief]

Queensland to change youth justice laws after supermarket stabbing

Premier David Crisafulli says there will be further changes to youth justice laws in the face of community outrage over a stabbing west of Brisbane on Monday.

www.abc.net.au

Can't even get their stupid policy right in the first place.

Article:

Mr Potts was also critical of the government's wider tough-on-crime approach.

"Members of the public may be surprised, but 13-year-olds do not sit around in the parks of Yamanto wondering whether they'll commit a crime or not, because they suddenly know that they can be treated as adults," he said.

"The simple truth is, 13-year-olds don't read the newspapers, don't watch the news, and even if they did, their brains are not formed sufficiently for them to make judgements about doing these things."

Katherine Hayes, chief executive of the Youth Advocacy Centre, agreed.

"There's been a narrative in Queensland that we're not giving kids consequences, that we've got a revolving door for courts, but we're locking up more kids than anywhere else in Australia," she said.

"More than Victoria and New South Wales combined, but it's just not working and we're about to spend $1 billion on a new detention centre, when all of the evidence shows that locking kids up doesn't significantly reduce offending."

 

[nut]

Article:

Mr Potts was also critical of the government's wider tough-on-crime approach.

"Members of the public may be surprised, but 13-year-olds do not sit around in the parks of Yamanto wondering whether they'll commit a crime or not, because they suddenly know that they can be treated as adults," he said.

"The simple truth is, 13-year-olds don't read the newspapers, don't watch the news, and even if they did, their brains are not formed sufficiently for them to make judgements about doing these things."

Katherine Hayes, chief executive of the Youth Advocacy Centre, agreed.

"There's been a narrative in Queensland that we're not giving kids consequences, that we've got a revolving door for courts, but we're locking up more kids than anywhere else in Australia," she said.

"More than Victoria and New South Wales combined, but it's just not working and we're about to spend $1 billion on a new detention centre, when all of the evidence shows that locking kids up doesn't significantly reduce offending."

Tough on crime has never worked…

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Reducing reoffending isn't the point for the tough on crime people. They just want offenders to suffer.

 

[Chief]

Reducing reoffending isn't the point for the tough on crime people. They just want offenders to suffer.

Retributive justice seems mainly to get citizens to feel better about the law and vote for lawmakers who put it in place.

It's actual utility in reforming citizens who engage in criminal behaviour is known to be almost non-existent.

Politicians who trumpet their retributive justice cred care about their jobs more than they care about victims of crime.

 

[Gough]

Retributive justice seems mainly to get citizens to feel better about the law and vote for lawmakers who put it in place.

It's actual utility in reforming citizens who engage in criminal behaviour is known to be almost non-existent.

Politicians who trumpet their retributive justice cred care about their jobs more than they care about victims of crime.

I'm sure Crisafulli is a keen Trump supporter though. Liberal MPs have been conspicuously silent about his return to government.