‘If the parents of kids aren’t able to exercise discipline … then the state needs to be disciplining these kids’, says victims’ advocate
Cunliffe, who had his Landcruiser stolen two years ago in Toowomba’s Middle Ridge, says he wants victims of crime to have more financial support, better access to counselling and the power to consult the government on youth justice.This month he got his wish: the Palaszczuk government announced Cunliffe had been appointed to Queensland’s youth justice strategy reference group as a victims’ representative.
Cunliffe has said he believes schools should consider bringing back the cane as a form of punishment. “That was an uncomfortable consequence! Unfortunately, like so many things it has become politically incorrect to even talk about that – cruel and barbaric punishment that actually put many kids on to a crime free pathway for life.In another comment Cunliffe says he believes there is a place for “court-administered corporal punishment”.When asked about the posts, Cunliffe told Guardian Australia that he believed there could be a place for the cane in schools.
The cane was commonly used to punish children in Queensland until corporal punishment was abolished in state schools in 1995. But at private schools it is still legal for a teacher to use “reasonable force” to discipline a child.
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