CRIME – GOVERNMENT POLICY – QUEENSLAND

Experts criticise Qld’s straight to jail law

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Original article by Marcus de Blonk Smith
The Australian – Page: 3 : 7-Jul-26

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli used his keynote address to the Liberal National Party’s state convention on Sunday to announce a new ‘breach bail, go to jail’ mandatory sentencing policy. Crisafulli said on Monday that the new policy was about tipping the balance ‘in favour of victims’, while he declined to say what the minimum mandatory sentence would be. Critics of the proposal claim it will place enormous pressure on the state’s detention centres, while the Queensland Law Society has previously warned that mandatory sentencing can lead to "serious miscarriages of justice"

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Adult crime laws top Qld agenda

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Original article by Bimini Plesser, Lydia Lynch
The Australian – Page: 7 : 26-Nov-24

Queensland parliament returns this week for the first time since the October elections, with new ‘adult crime, adult time’ legislation expected to be introduced as a matter of priority. It will require that juveniles who commit serious crimes such as murder and manslaughter be sentenced as adults, with the Queensland opposition unlikely to oppose the legislation. Criminal defence lawyer Bill Potts is critical of the legislation, saying that the government’s focus should be on what causes crime, rather than locking up juvenile offenders. Queensland Law Society president Rebecca Fogerty says she is concerned that the government wants to pass the legislation before Christmas, claiming that that does not provide enough time for the legislation to be properly scrutinised.

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