A petition to overhaul youth crime laws in Queensland has reached 150,000 signatures and its creator Julie West has expressed her anger at the state’s Labor government for not contacting her to discuss the views of Queenslanders.
The “Emma’s Law” petition was created in honour of Queensland mother Emma Lovell who was killed during a home invasion last year.
Ms West said she has been in contact with the state’s Liberal Party and spoken with Senator Pauline Hanson and independent MP Bob Katter’s offices. “I look at the talk-fest that went on in Toowoomba last night – they talk at people,” she told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “150,000 people have signed my petition, there’s 7,000 odd more than that now comments, there is 1.2 million people who have viewed the petition.
“I have not had one phone call from Labor, I have not had a call from the Premier, the Deputy Premier, any MP at all from the Labor side – not one, not even after everything that has happened over the last 48 hours.”
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