On a youth detention centre being constructed in Cairns
The problem isn’t the detention centre, it’s those that run it. The Qld Youth Justice department.
Roger Brancher
They need to learn a trade while there to help them down the track.
Sandra Matthews
If they build anything it should be out in the bush on a working farm. They should have no privileges and no visitors. They deserve nothing. Work, eat, sleep repeat.
Renee Ozorio
Sorry, but this swaps one hell for another hell … You’ve all fallen victim to the “angry pitchfork people” solution!
David Rayner
It can create a negative environment because in juvie centres troubled youths are grouped with other troubled groups which can worsen behavioural issues.
Danny Lui
Set it up in a rural area and increase rural employment rate.
Alexander Jim
No not in the Cairns area but out in the bush a long way away from communities and towns, like a working cattle station far away from everyone and everything.
Gari Van Den Bos
No – not unless they also change the Youth Justice Act and the mamby pamby civil libbers in the justice system.
Phillip Graham
Whatever it is they make, don’t let it be a holiday home … take away any privileges. Teach skills and respect. Elizabeth Warren
And some American private contractor is going to make loads of money. Rosal Fischer
On Tyson Burke-Phineeasa showing greater interest in taking his team to CDRL finals than any individual accolade True words individual awards come off the back of teamwork great mindset budda keep up the great work.
William Wadjamari Munns
Congratulations nephew. Love from your Gagai family, Brisbane.
David Gagai
On the exorbitant price of a round of beers at the pub
Where’s everyone drinking? My local gives me $4-5 schooners.
Don Yabba
We have federal and state governments that are addicted to more taxes.
Ian Brennan
Stay home and brew your own. Angel Porter-Talbot
$30 for 2 pints of craft beer. Nope. Jonno Virantargo
On drivers returning to the road after a traumatic experience using new “R plates”
Drivers barely give enough space and patience to learner drivers, I can’t see this working.
Ewan Forbes
Just use an L plate. Mark St
Yes … but it won’t work in Cairns …. roads are full of kids driving stolen cars like maniacs.
Ebony Thompson
If you need a special plate on ya car don’t be on the road.
Anthony Dillon
I feel these drivers will be targeted. So I don’t think it will be very effective.
Karen Thomas
1571 A Turkish fleet is destroyed by Christian forces commanded by Don John of Austria at the Battle of Lepanto. About 30,000 die. 1769 James Cook becomes the second
European, after Abel Tasman, to sight New Zealand. After claiming it for Britain, Cook maps the coastline.
1798 George Bass and Matthew Flinders leave Sydney on the small sloop Norfolk, built on Norfolk Island, to check that Van Diemen’s Land is separated from mainland Australia.
1817 The first Methodist chapel in Australia is opened at Castlereagh, north of Penrith, by Reverend Samuel Leigh. It was built by settler John Lees.
1830 Lieutenant governor George Arthur of Van Diemen’s Land organises a seven-week drive by police, soldiers, and settlers – the Black Line – to capture and confine all Aborigines. Only two Aborigines are captured. Two others are shot.
1849 Edgar Allan Poe (pictured) dies in Baltimore, aged 40, probably after a drinking session.
1959 Soviet spacecraft Luna-3 takes the first photographs of the far side of the moon.
1985 Members of the Palestine Liberation Front hijack an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro. One passenger, a Jewish-American, is murdered next day. 2001
Triggered by the September 11 attacks, the Afghanistan War begins, as US and British warplanes start bombing Taliban targets.
2003 Austrian-born Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes Republican governor of California in a recall election as voters toss out Democratic Governor Gray Davis.
2007 Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a critic of President Vladimir Putin, is shot dead at her apartment block in central Moscow. She was 48.