Juvenile justice
Queensland parliament as it happened: Child safety report, e-bike laws in focus
In the third and final day of this week’s parliament sitting, controversial e-mobility laws are set to pass.
- Matt Dennien
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‘Measure of failure’: $20m inquiry slams Queensland child safety crisis
The probe’s almost 1400-page report has called for sweeping overhauls, including controversial changes to adoption practices and out-of-home care.
- Matt Dennien
- Exclusive
- Queensland government
New crime prevention schools to be handpicked after dumped process
The Queensland government will now directly select providers for the three sites under a $50 million early intervention promise from the 2024 election.
- Matt Dennien
‘See it through’: Killer teen’s sentence cut challenged
The grieving husband of Emma Lovell, who was murdered in a brutal home invasion, has attended a High Court appeal after his wife’s teenage killer had his sentence reduced.
- Andrew Stafford and Laine Clark
- Exclusive
- Queensland government
Search for ‘crime prevention school’ providers grinds to a halt
The Crisafulli LNP government vowed to set up four new or expanded schools for disengaged and at-risk youth. Only the future of its hand-picked Gold Coast site is clear.
- Matt Dennien
- Exclusive
- Child safety
A boy sexually harassed Lucy at school. Then his mother used an IVO to silence her
The number of children seeking legal help with intervention orders placed by other school parents has doubled. For Lucy, whose harasser took one out on her, it was devastating.
- Wendy Tuohy
Good Samaritan killed at train station remembered as hero with a kind soul
Aidan Becker was killed while intervening as a group allegedly tried to rob a schoolboy, police say. His friends remembered him as kind and optimistic.
- Angus Delaney and Marta Pascual Juanola
LNP expands ‘adult crime, adult time’ laws with 12 new offences
The new laws will target stalking, conspiring to murder, abuse and other offences, taking the total to 45, the premier announced on Sunday.
- Cameron Atfield
- Editorial
- Crime
Fast track BackTrack: Program for troubled kids must be replicated
Community-led programs are the key to helping stem youth crime.
- The Herald's View
This service is saving kids’ lives. More towns want to replicate it, but none have succeeded
Politicians want to replicate it and most of the “at-risk” children involved in BackTrack never want to leave.
- Jordan Baker