Child safety advocates have hit out at the Palaszczuk government over the timing of youth justice laws.
The laws were introduced into Parliament last week in response to a number of incidents, including the deaths of a pregnant woman and her partner in Alexandra Hills on Australia Day, who were allegedly hit and killed by a 17 year old from Waterford West.
The laws would see courts issuing G-P-S trackers to 16 and 17 year old offenders and a presumption against bail for teens who commit serious offences.
Matt Gardiner from Save the Children has said it’s not appropriate when the community is still grieving over recent incidents.
” What we’re really concerned about is how knee jerk this reaction is. It’s not the right environment to be creating knew legislation capitalising on the grief of the community”.
