Many plans but still no solutions to youth crime crisis that won’t go away

Tuesday February 09, 2021

The latest iteration of a “youth crime crackdown” has Annastacia Palaszczuk trying to meet community expectations. As Sean Parnell writes, that can be a difficult game.

Family and friends are seen as two hearses containing the coffins of Matt Field and Kate Leadbetter are given a guard of honour by students at Iona College in Brisbane on Monday. (AAP Image/Darren England)

Unfair though it may be on law-abiding locals, Townsville is the epicentre of Queensland’s ‘youth crime crisis’. It was where, in the last election campaign, the Liberal National…

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