Queensland premier unveils new youth crime slogan: Breach Bail Go to Jail
Joe Hinchliffe
David Crisafulli has vowed to imprison more youth offenders.
In a keynote speech to the Liberal National party’s state conference on Sunday, the Queensland premier said his government would create and legislate a new offence by the end of the year, carrying a mandatory sentence – yet to be set – for repeat offenders who commit serious crimes while on bail.
“Breach Bail Go to Jail is the next phase of Adult Crime, Adult Time, which is holding youth offenders accountable for the first time in a long time,” Premier Crisafulli said.
We’re heading in the right direction and we’ve heard from Queenslanders who are telling us to keep going, and we will with reforms to Labor’s weak bail laws.
But Youth Advocacy Centre CEO Katherine Hayes said Queensland already had the “harshest youth bail laws in Australia” – a model that became increasingly punitive under the previous government, which introduced a presumption against bail into the Youth Justice Act and made breach of bail a criminal offence.
“Queensland already locks up more kids than anywhere else in Australia – more than Victoria and New South Wales combined,” Hayes said.
This is a further step to make already harsh bail laws harsher.
Sisters Inside CEO Debbie Kilroy said the LNP government had “declared war on children”.
“Queensland is building a youth justice system driven by headlines instead of evidence,” she said.
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In a keynote speech to the Liberal National party’s state conference on Sunday, the Queensland premier said his government would create and legislate a new offence by the end of the year, carrying a mandatory sentence – yet to be set – for repeat offenders who commit serious crimes while on bail.
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“Breach Bail Go to Jail is the next phase of Adult Crime, Adult Time, which is holding youth offenders accountable for the first time in a long time,” Premier Crisafulli said.
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We’re heading in the right direction and we’ve heard from Queenslanders who are telling us to keep going, and we will with reforms to Labor’s weak bail laws.
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But Youth Advocacy Centre CEO Katherine Hayes said Queensland already had the “harshest youth bail laws in Australia” – a model that became increasingly punitive under the previous government, which introduced a presumption against bail into the Youth Justice Act and made breach of bail a criminal offence.
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“Queensland already locks up more kids than anywhere else in Australia – more than Victoria and New South Wales combined,” Hayes said.
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This is a further step to make already harsh bail laws harsher.
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Sisters Inside CEO Debbie Kilroy said the LNP government had “declared war on children”.
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“Queensland is building a youth justice system driven by headlines instead of evidence,” she said.
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The Queensland premier said his government would create and legislate a new offence by the end of the year for youth offenders, carrying a mandatory sentence – yet to be set – for repeat offenders who commit serious crimes while on bail. The premier said
“breach bail, go to jail” is the next phase of adult crime, adult time.
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