Saturday, 11 Nov, 2023
Draft laws are expected to be introduced into the Queensland Parliament before the end of the year that will seek to ban the sale of knives, replica firearms, gel blasters and other bladed items to minors. The proposed new laws stem from a spate of serious knife related offences in the south-east including the tragic […]
Read moreSaturday, 11 Nov, 2023
The Queensland Labor Government have confirmed they won’t be coming out with any new strategies to try and reduce youth crime as Youth Justice Minister Di Farmer lays the blame on the judiciary for failing to adequately impose Parliament’s laws. In Townsville on the weekend, a young mother was injured after she fought back against […]
Read moreFriday, 13 Oct, 2023
Recent incidents of vigilante behaviour demonstrate community desperation as the State Government grapples to come up with a single policy that has a substantial impact on the scourge of youth crime. In the wake of an appalling week of youth crime, community members in Townsville and the Gold Coast have allegedly taken matters into their […]
Read moreThursday, 16 Mar, 2023
THE KATTER’S Australian Party Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter, has hailed a proposed plan by a charity to build on Geoff Guest’s Petford Youth Training Camp (YTC) concept as a perfect complement to the party’s Re-location Sentencing policy, and is urging the Queensland Government to consider it as a part of the solution to the growing youth crime problem in Queensland.
Read moreWednesday, 1 Mar, 2023
The outback town labelled “ground zero” of Queensland’s spiralling youth crime crisis has been ignored and its residents treated like “second class citizens” according to a furious Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter.
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