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Brisbane news live: Amnesty slams premier over ‘adult crime, adult time’ policy
Top Stories Tamfitronics Key posts1 of 1Amnesty slams premier over ‘adult crime, adult time’ policyBy Marissa CalligerosAmnesty International Australia is calling on the new Queensland LNP government to urgently rethink its tough “adult crime, adult time” policy.The group says the policy flies in the face of expert evidence about addressing youth crime and risks contravening the Convention on the Rights of the Child.Amnesty International Indigenous rights campaigner Kacey Teerman cites findings from Victoria’s Inquiry into Youth Detention Centres, the disability royal commission and the recent Help Way Earlier! report from the National Children’s Commissioner that show jailing children exacerbates the impacts of trauma and alienation that can lead to offending.“We call on Premier David Crisafuli to explain why he thinks he knows better than every expert in this field who say that imprisoning children only...
Brisbane news live: LNP candidate’s Hitler joke ‘wrong’, says leader | Katters want corporal punishment
Top Stories Tamfitronics Key posts1 of 1Crisafulli says LNP candidate’s Hitler joke ‘wrong’ and ‘not funny’By William DavisOpposition Leader David Crisafulli says LNP candidate Bree James’ decision to pose with a defaced portrait featuring an Adolf Hitler moustache was “wrong” and “not funny”.LNP Barron River candidate Bree James makes light of her banner’s Hitler moustache graffiti in a since deleted Facebook post.Credit: FacebookThe candidate for Barron River published a photo – since deleted – of the graffiti on Facebook on Saturday to promote a festival in Cairns.“German Festival is on tonight at German Club Cairns til late tonight,” she wrote, wryly adding the event included “free facepainting”.“Even my banner is getting in the spirit and celebrating my German heritage.”Crisafulli was asked about the post at the LNP campaign launch in Ipswich on Sunday.“It’s not ....
As it happened: Brisbane on Thursday, September 19
Top Stories Tamfitronics Key posts1 of 3Police appeal for witnesses in crash that killed womanBy Catherine StrohfeldtInvestigators are appealing to three motorists seen in CCTV footage prior to a single-vehicle crash in Coopers Plains around 4.50 this morning that killed a female pedestrian.Emergency services declared the pedestrian – a woman in her 30s – dead on-scene after she received critical injuries from the crash.Slowed-down CCTV footage of the three vehicles travelling on Kessels Road, Coopers Plains, before a fatal single-vehicle crash. Credit: Queensland PolicePolice reported the vehicle was a Mitsubishi Lancer, indicated to have struck the pedestrian on the footpath near Kessels and Riawena roads, where it also rolled into a ditch and hit a pole.The 19-year-old man driving the Lancer was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries.The three drivers...
