Pressure from groups calling for either a backdown or further tough action continues to fuel the emotive issue amid internal frustrations while the Premier is away.
A national campaign is growing to overturn controversial youth justice law changes rushed through Queensland parliament before Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk left for an overseas holiday.
An open letter to Palaszczuk and senior ministers, signed by 180 First Nations, human rights, and social service groups and experts, calls for an immediate shift. “We are outraged that the Queensland government has failed to implement advice and expertise on alternatives to incarceration [and] community-led approaches that support children and their families,” the letter says.
“[It has] opted instead to suspend its own Human Rights Act and violate international laws to continue to punish and criminalise Queensland children.”The statement, co-ordinated by First Nations-led justice coalition Change the Record and released publicly on Wednesday, is the second significant open letter to the government this week.
On Monday, former Appeal Court president Margaret McMurdo – recently tasked with the landmark women’s safety and justice reports for the government – urged the state’s political leaders toLast week’s law changes were pitched largely as an effort to ensure “business as usual” around holding kids and teens in police watch houses after a court ruling
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