Youth detention must be managed properly
Under Annastacia Palaszczuk and Labor our youth detention system has been in constant chaos.
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In 2016, Labor rushed in changes to move young offenders from adult prisons to youth detention centres.
The LNP opposed the changes because there was no transition plan on how this would happen safely.
It was all supposed to be completed by November last year, but we now learn that this has been delayed a second time.
Our prisons are overcrowded. Our youth detention centres are overcrowded.
Labor’s only solution to this problem is youth bail houses – letting young offenders charged with a crime live in the suburbs.
It’s important that our youth justice system is managed properly for two key reasons. We need to rehabilitate these young offenders so they don’t become hardened adult prisoners that are constantly in and out of prison.
Community safety must come first. A plan to address youth justice issues should be a plan that also means less crime.
Labor have failed for three years and it seems that is set to continue.
Annastacia Palaszczuk can’t even get the basics right, so why should Queenslanders trust that Labor will keep them safe?
David Janetzki MP
Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for Justice
Dare to dream
As an atheist I don't wear symbols that identify any version of religious delusion.
No crosses, no crucifixes, no hijabs, no Star of David, no Flying Spaghetti Monster or whatever the Book of Mormon promotes.
I would never choose to publicly attack, assault or ridicule anyone because of the beliefs that were imposed on them by parents and geography, until they try and infect others with their nonsense.
This current Federal government is deliberately promoting division on spurious ethno/religious grounds.
As Martin Luther King said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
I too, have a dream.
George Harley, Mount Isa
Double standards
Barnaby Joyce says that he still believes in Traditional Family Values, and the teachings of the Catholic Church. Of course he does. That's how he gives himself a get-out-of-jail-free card.
The Catholic Church teaches that marriage is a sacrament, and therefore indissoluble. It does not recognize divorce, it does not recognize second marriage while the first wife is still living, and it does not recognize civil marriages.
So Barnaby Joyce can shack up with another woman and his first marriage will still exist -- the actual condition of it won't matter. He can divorce his first wife and marry someone else in a registry office or a Protestant church, and that won't count. He does and will believe that he is always still married to his first wife, and that therefore he can spout stuff about Traditional Family Values as much as he likes.
He'll just fudge questions about the status and actual meaning of his second, um, relationship -- that's private, and has nothing to do with his political marketing of himself. After all, Ian Sinclair was notorious for his affairs, yet he could put his name to newspaper columns extolling Christian Family Life without a second thought.
So why shouldn't Barnaby Joyce have his cake and eat it? It's not as though he's asking Centrelink for rent support or the dole, all while having an argument about co-habitation. And anyway, his party backs him to the hilt. No-one in it will ever say to him that he can have affairs or he can have Traditional Family Values, but not both.
G.T.W. AGNEW, Coopers Plains