Crime problem needs fix
WE NOW see the consequence of the Palaszczuk government’s bloody-minded policy of refusing to deal with juvenile crime.
The young offenders from 2015, having graduated to grown-ups’ court, are training up the new crop juvenile crims in the everlasting escalation of Queensland’s youth crime epidemic.
Last week’s violent crime wave directed at police is a clear example, where young adults and juveniles were charged with multiple offences (TB 13/09/2021).
No one in the government ever saw that one coming because they were busily concentrating on repealing all the Newman government’s legislation.
Now we have a void into which they throw the occasional piece of ineffective legislation and then stand back boasting about being tough.
Meanwhile, they continue with their policy of secrecy.
Aaron Harper began the year with his announcement of a new secret crime combating method about to be unleashed and to this day, we still don’t know if it was introduced or what influence it had/ didn’t have on crime.
Not much, I’m thinking.
During the recent budget estimates committee hearing, the integrity commissioner said she was “very concerned about unregistered
and unreported lobbying”.
It seems government officials and lobbyists are having secret meetings over secret deals.
Then we had the recent revelation that the government spent $528,000 on secret polling in relation to coronavirus policy,
however, refuses to release any information of the results to the public or the reason for the polls.
Meanwhile, Ms Palaszczuk insists that all COVID-19 decisions are made on health advice.
Well, that statement has already been exposed for what it is and
anyway, she refuses to divulge just what that “health advice” is.
The latest piece of local deception is the policy of barring the media from the kiddie courts on the grounds of looking after the welfare of the offenders, regardless of the interests of the community (another piece of legislation abolished by this rabble of a government).
Until recently, in high-profile cases, the media were granted access to the courts provided they abided by strict protocols.
Suddenly this has stopped, and it appears that magistrates may have received directions from the Attorney-general, through the Chief Magistrate, that such hearings must be conducted under the cloak of secrecy.
The suggestion that a juvenile offender could be identified in the community and be detrimental to the offender’s wellbeing.
Incredulity reigns.
These kids boast about their crimes on social media, so they have already identified themselves to their community.
And the elephant in the room is the question: What about the safety of the community?
The sceptical among us would think the government doesn’t want us to know that, despite the intensification of violence levelled on the people, they don’t want us to know they are still dealing with it with the severity of a piece of limp celery.
Without meaningful action, the Townsville Crime Training Camp will continue flourishing.
JEFF WILLIAMS, Condon