Ministers and police commissioner will attend community forum in Toowoomba as high profile youth crimes put Palaszczuk government under pressure
The minister also said “there must be consequences” for “serious repeat offenders”.
“No one can suggest that locking up kids for several weeks without any form of rehabilitation assists in the long term. That’s a broken system,” Crisafulli said.But the opposition leader also called for breach of bail to be made an offence and criticised legislation brought in by the Palaszczuk government in 2015, which said detention should be a last resort for children.
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