Queensland 2024

Prison reform/ crime treatment requires adequate classification system

Children in Qld who stab people to death aren’t going to turn into responsible adults once they turn 17.
Other people jailed for white collar crime should be protected while being locked up with them, though.
That type of Prison Reform was what caused the 1983 Coalition split, according to an Oral History interview that former Greenslopes MLA Bill Hewitt did not long before he died.

Prison Reform will turn a predatory psychopath into a model citizen is one of the hoary shibboleths of the Loony Left going back to the 60s.
Of course it never even happened once, and the many victims are just embarrassing evidence to be swept under the nearest carpet.

I still haven’t got an answer as to what Crusifulli will do if unreported crime increases during his term as premier.

@Nimalan, outside the Jewish, Muslims, some Christian Arabs, some Christian Right and the Green Left, most Australians are actually indifferent on the Gaza Issue as recent opinion polling suggest a majority have no opinion on the protest and surprisingly a slight majority supports Albanese handling on the taking a more balance position (even most Coalition voters) which indicates Peter Dutton cannot just sway Middle Anglo Australia by being fervently Pro-Israel but rather other issues.

Real Talk, how would it be “unreported” if we don’t know it happened?

I will be voting tomorrow.

@ Marh
I do agree with you analysis. I do think the majority of people in Australia are more neutral. For example a Vietnamese Australian in Fraser and a Greek Orthodox Australian in Cooper is not likely to swing to the Greens or Libs on this issue. The Green Left will be voting for the Greens/Socialists anyway and the Christian Right (Pentecostals) would be reliable Liberal preferencing anyway. Dutton’s stance will not hurt him in Middle Anglo Australia but does not really benefit him either. While people are concerned about the violence and deaths many Australians do not want to be seen as chearleading for one side. What this conflict has done though is actually reverse a potential realignment it has made the Libs more popular in Dover Heights (Wentworth) and less popular in Meadow Heights (Calwell). Previously, many commentators felt the opposite will be the trend

@Daniel T I simply ask because somehow some people believe crime statistics – which are down, according to credible sources – are actually not decreasing because of the unreported crimes, which are apparently up. If Crusafulli is pledging to resign if crime is going down, we have the right to know whether unreported crimes are going to be included in that pledge.

I meant to say: If Crusafulli is pledging to resign if crime is increasing

Actually Gympie, many former prisoners have turned their lives around. There’s an entire statistic called the rate of recidivism that measures whether those convicted of crimes reoffend, and it isn’t 100%. Some people have this crazy notion that the justice system should not just be purely about punishing people to make society feel good, but also about reducing the rate of recidivism so that we have a safer society in future.

As Scart pointed out on the federal election thread, here in Queensland the state leaders are more popular than their federal counterparts.

I would rank them (in terms of popularity in Queensland, first is most popular and last is least popular):

1. Crisafulli — very popular (never had a bad opinion poll; the only other recent party leader I can think of who never got a single net negative rating in an opinion is Gladys Berejiklian when she was Premier of NSW, she was very popular during COVID too)
2. Dutton — average, preferred over Albo but still has some baggage especially in parts of Brisbane
3. Miles — very unpopular (more unpopular than Palaszczuk, never led as preferred Premier)
4. Albo — very unpopular (more unpopular than Miles)

I actually applaud the fact that someone arguing the ontological evil of murder is for once apparently being consistent about it in regards to the country that’s carrying out a genocide. Most of the grrrr tough on crime lot couldn’t care less about it. A lot of them really like it in fact.

@ FL
Is Albo carrying out Genocide in Australia?

Anyway, we’re 11 days out from the election. Here’s what’s making news on the campaign trail:

* In the unlikely event of a hung parliament, Premier Steven Miles says he would rather David Crisafulli’s LNP form a minority government than Labor govern with minor parties and/or independents like they did in 2015.
* Katter’s Australian Party is advocating for rural issues, introducing castle law (for guns, just like castle law in the US), banning abortion, tougher crime policies (“bush sentencing”) and allowing parents to use corporal punishment,
* Dr. Paul Williams, a political commentator from Griffith University, predicts that the LNP will win an absolute majority but that KAP will retain all four of its seats, including Mirani, and that One Nation will just fall short in Keppel. He also doubts that any other independents will be elected (besides Sandy Bolton being re-elected in Noosa).
* James Ashby, Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff and the One Nation candidate for Keppel, is leading the social media race in Keppel, with significantly more likes on social media platforms than LNP candidate Nigel Hutton and Labor MP Brittany Lauga.
* Steven Miles is promising free school lunches if Labor is re-elected, though many see this as a desperate plea.
* The Betoota Advocate continues to be biased in its supposedly satirical articles, deciding not to dare criticise Labor but happily criticise the LNP.

Thoughts?

I was really just alluding to Israel but since Albo is aiding and abetting it, sure. Dutton’s actively cheerleading it and hoping to expand our complicity.

For the sake of remaining somewhat on topic my point isn’t really to argue the merits of having crime statistics, annihilating entire nations of people or allowing yourself to be used in such a campaign but to illustrate that the ‘youth crime debate’, such as it is, is really just another case of crime being a proxy of racial grievance, usually white racial grievance.

Tourism is a big deal in the coastal parts of Keppel, if Ashby has a plan he might win.
It would depend on Labor preferencing him over the LNP, because I can’t see Brittany makingt the top 2.

@Furtive Lawngnome October 15, 2024 at 2:06 pm
I was really just alluding to Israel but since Albo is aiding and abetting it, sure. Dutton’s actively cheerleading it and hoping to expand our complicity.
Sure, but Dutton isn'[t the PM and he’s not making Foreign Policy.
All Albo had to do was be honest, but it was a bridge too far.

Not sure that having more likes and follows in one electorate is more noteworthy than ensuring disadvantaged kids who turn up to school are fed and able to learn, but it’s your faux news column, not mine.

@Real Talk how is any of it faux news (faux means fake if you know French)? This is from ABC News, which tends to lean left.

Also, it does somewhat matter how active a candidate or MP is on social media, since young people often get information and news from social media (e.g the 7 News Instagram account vs 7 News on TV).