Thursday, 10 Oct, 2024
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has criticised the LNP’s recently announced $50 million “reset” camps for troubled youth as another band-aid fix that lacks real substance or long-term solutions to North Queensland’s youth…
Read moreWednesday, 23 Aug, 2023
Queensland is on the precipice of long-overdue youth crime reform with the release of an alternative sentencing model that would send recidivist offenders to the bush to complete intense, long-term rehabilitation programs coinciding with hundreds of angry residents marching on Parliament House today. Earlier this week, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) launched its Relocation Sentencing – […]
Read moreTuesday, 1 Aug, 2023
Tune in Queensland is the message from Hinchinbrook MP and Katter’s Australian Paty (KAP) Deputy Leader, Nick Dametto, as the Northern Territory (NT) braces for the age of criminal responsibility to rise from ten to twelve years on the 1st of August. The Northern Territory Attorney-General claimed the decision to increase the age of criminal […]
Read moreThursday, 13 Jul, 2023
The last week in Townsville has seen back-to-back home invasions, robberies, assaults and even a homicide, leaving the State Member for Hinchinbrook and Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader, Nick Dametto, asking - how much worse can it get? “The chaos that we have seen unfold across Townsville in just the last three or four days […]
Read moreWednesday, 24 May, 2023
Legislation was passed in the Queensland Parliament this week making various changes to corrective services legislation within Queensland. One such change was to criminalise the act of adult prisoners gaining access to restricted areas of correctional centres, namely rooftops.
Read moreMonday, 22 May, 2023
KATTER’S Australian Party MP Bob Katter is frustrated with the “revolving door” of youth crime policy, sympathising with Queensland’s juvenile offenders caught up in the system, following an alleged break into his Mount Isa electorate office late Sunday night.
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