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Youth offenders in Queensland to face tougher sentences for serious crimes
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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12/13/2024
Hardline youth justice laws to sentence youth offenders as adults for more than a dozen serious crimes have passed Queensland parliament.
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This legislation was really considered sort of the hallmark of the state government for
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their election campaign. Those slogans, adult crime, adult time, were plastered all across
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the state. So what these changes are going to look like is that effectively there will
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be tougher sentences for young offenders for up to 13 serious crimes here in Queensland
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and they include murder, manslaughter as well as burglary. And just to give you an example,
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if a young person aged between 10 to 17 years old is found guilty of say murder, they face
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a mandatory life sentence as well as a maximum non-parole period of up to 20 years. Now these
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law changes were largely triggered by the high-profile deaths of Angus Beaumont, Violine
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White, Kate Ledbetter as well as Matthew Field. And yesterday, before the laws were officially
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passed through, the Premier David Christopher Lee invited the families of those victims
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to watch on. Now what was particularly interesting was that the state's opposition, all members,
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did vote for the bill, but the ABC does understand that one Labor backbencher, John T. Bush,
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who is an advocate for victims of crime, had spoken out against the legislation and had
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reservations. The ABC does now also understand that she is considering what her future is
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going to look like in the Labor Party. Now the state government is hoping that this bill
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will become official law before Christmas to fulfil their pre-election promise. Of course,
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while the bill has passed through state parliament, there is still the matter of the Governor-General
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signing off on the bill as well. And there are questions that do remain on the impacts
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that these changes to the law will have on the state's already struggling youth detention
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centres as well as watch houses. But Mel, it does mark sort of the final sitting week
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here in Queensland for state parliament, and state parliament is not expected to resume
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until early next year in February.
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