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LNP’s Queensland election pitch to enforce Townsville and Cairns youth curfew slammed by community leaders as ‘archaic’
An LNP election pledge to impose curfews on young people in Cairns and Townsville in order to reduce juvenile crime would be ineffective and could “criminalise” Indigenous families, community leaders and activists say.
Key points:
- Under the LNP policy, parents would be fined $250 each time a young person was picked up by authorities
- The policy is similar to a 2017 LNP proposal to trial a 10:00pm curfew for Townsville children under 16
- Professor Gracelyn Smallwood says these kinds of programs only serve to alienate disadvantaged groups
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