Premier suffered lowest approval rating on record in recent poll but message at Queensland Labor state conference was about unity
The state attorney general, Yvette D’Ath, said the government’s policies were about “diverting people away from incarceration and youth criminal justice system”.revealed this week two-thirds of the 169 children charged with Queensland’s new breach of bail offences are Indigenous.
“If those people are breaching the law, then those people will be intercepted by police, arrested and charged,” he told reporters on Saturday. “Where there isn’t a reasonable explanation … there should be consequences for that.”With the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, on an official visit in Vietnam, the acting prime minister – and Queenslander – Jim Chalmers took the opportunity to gloat about the Maroons’ victory in the first State of Origin game on Wednesday.
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