Actions on youth crime begin at home
Firstly youth crime will not be halted until the fundamentals of non existent parenting by some first generation Aboriginal parents is corrected.
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Secondly the offenders whom appear weekly before an unsatisfactory Magistrates Court system need sentencing to remedial detention and not released until they have changed their habits.
State legislation empowering Magistrates to haul parents of offenders before the Court to be held accountable for the conduct of their youths, should be implemented.
Mayor Joyce McCulloch was correct in stating action against youth crime should start in the home by parents.
Consideration for victims of crime is long overdue. The primary purpose of our mining city is maintaining a community of mine workers engaged in mine work.
These men and women work 12 hour shifts and don't deserve for their city to harbour primitive little hunter gatherers to be nightly thieving their cars and breaking into their homes and shops.
This plague has visited our towns and cities as reported daily on the ABC from Derby, Kununurra, Katherine,Tennant Creek, Mount Isa, Townsville to Cairns and should be purged.
Drive our roads and streets leading from certain suburbs to the city centre onwards from about 6pm daily and witness these waifs as young as 8 heading into the city for the nights mischief. Where are their parents?
I hope the story in Tuesday's Star "Operation Bounce Back" doesn't mean the Mount Isa City Council is placing money into the wasteful practices of sausage sizzles and youth minding exercises that parents should be doing.
Children need hands on parenting, rules, boundaries, what they can and can't do, manners respect. I got this at home, so did my three kids, so should these.
John.M. J. Molony, Mount Isa.
Sports rorts
Regional Australia has to have a skill set to deal with fire, flood, drought and now the injustices posed by the sports rorts.
The last Federal election result, as the Australian National Audit Office has now revealed was apparently based on sports grants to marginal seats the coalition hoped to win, not on fairness.
Winning at all costs appears to be the moral imperative of the current government. Political posturing and whining explanations do not justify treating Australians or regional Australians in this way.
It is bad enough to have mislead the electorate into thinking that grants would be given on merit only to discover the real criteria was political expediency.
How much worse is it for regional Australia when this kind of political largesse, which is worse than gerrymandering, happens before an election with the, in plain sight, intention to win seats in the election?
Regional Australia invariably suffers from the out of sight out of mind attitude of bureaucrats and coalition officials who appear to think that public policy for their own CBD is the same as for regional areas.
Nuance is not their strong point.
Removing incentives, like the Zone Allowance, which they tried to do in the last year is more their kind of thing.
The coalition, which has a designated arm, the Country party, that is supposed to look after the interests of regional Australia also appears to favour winning over fairness.
Evidently the Country Party section of the coalition was sleeping on the job prior to the election for this to happen.
Hence, we get regional funding such as a $10 million for a North Sydney pool.
Those living in Regional Australia will surely ecstatically, want to visit North Sydney to dip a toe in the North Sydney wonder pool in order to take advantage of this, purported to be,regional project.
It's a long way from Alice Springs if you want to Rock and Roll in the North Sydney Regional Pool project.
Kendall Santillan, Mount Isa