We cannot lock up every disadvantaged kid with ‘minimal criminal history’. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundupĪnnastacia Palaszczuk’s comment this week that “no one is going to stop youth crime” seemed to be a plea to voters not to lay blame at the feet of government.īut why shouldn’t they? The government has repeatedly claimed it can fix things through its tough-on-crime approach. Yet it has still fuelled another law-and-order auction: the police union calling for children to be treated like adults, and the LNP calling for the state to remove the international law principle of “detention as a last resort” from the youth justice act.Īnd if all else fails to deflect from years of bad policy, reach for the oldest political trick in the book: blame the parents. (Let’s set aside for a moment the fact that experts say those laws won’t be effective in any situation.)
The Courier-Mail this week revealed the boy had a limited criminal history, and that Queensland’s “toughest laws in the country” would not have done a thing in this situation.
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