Premier Steven Miles’ erasure of the human rights principle of ‘detention as a last resort’ for children defies logic
Queensland’s premier, Steven Miles, once argued detaining young offenders for low-level offences would make the situation worse – but has now adopted the move as official Labor policy.Queensland’s premier, Steven Miles, once argued detaining young offenders for low-level offences would make the situation worse – but has now adopted the move as official Labor policy.
What Miles and Labor have inadvertently proved, again, is that the party is willing to abandon long-held principles and evidence-based policy in the face of an election defeat. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “Every news story about another incident would come with a line from the LNP saying the solution was breach of bail ,” a Labor minister said at the time.Of course, that didn’t work. The opposition leader, David Crisafulli, turned his attention to the idea of “detention as a last resort”. He talks about it on an almost daily basis, particularly in regional cities like Townsville and Cairns.
The logic of then premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was to establish a sort of war cabinet, adopt its recommendations and move on with a suite of policies endorsed by the LNP. But six months before the state election – and to no one’s shock – the major parties couldn’t agree on a way forward and the committee disbanded.Meanwhile, there are real-world consequences to any decision that has the impact of putting more children into custody.
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