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Opposition makes $21 million pledges for the state’s justice system
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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10/10/2024
The Opposition Leader is in the north of the state where he made a 21-million dollar pledge to improve the justice system.
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David Cricifulli has announced if elected, the LNP will increase funding to the justice
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system to deal with a backlog of cases.
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$21.5 million will be spent over four years, with $12 million to go towards the Director
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of Public Prosecutions to boost resources and more staffing.
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About $6 million will go towards the DPP catching up on cases impacted by the state's DNA lab
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testing debacle.
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In addition, a district court judge for Townsville will also be appointed to deal with pressures
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on the justice system.
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Two commissions of inquiry found serious failings over many years at the Forensic Science Queensland
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lab, including a fatally flawed automated testing method that might have seen offenders
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escaping conviction.
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Mr Cricifulli says the funding will help deal with more than 40,000 cases needing to be
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reviewed by the DPP or Queensland Police.
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Justice delayed is justice denied and today we reveal our plan for faster justice to deal
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with the DNA debacle and the Queensland crime crisis.
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Mr Cricifulli was also pressed about his renewable energy plan and what pumped hydro projects
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an LNP government would support, given its promise to scrap Labor's pioneer Burdekin
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pumped hydro project proposed in the Mackay region.
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The LNP leader says he supports the Barumba pumped hydro project west of the Sunshine
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Coast, but he wouldn't reveal what other projects he did support, apart from saying that there
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were a number of smaller pumped hydro projects proposed from the private sector.
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Mr Cricifulli also says that an LNP government would keep coal-fired power stations running
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as long as possible to make the transition to renewable energy.
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