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• AND ORDER IN QUEENSLAND AND AUSTRALIA
  LAWTHE WAY LAW AND ORDER IS IN QUEENSLAND IT IS NON-EXCISTANT IT NEEDS SOME FIXING I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME CHANGESTHERE SHOULD BE A ZERO TOLLARANCE AND THAT INCLUDES EVERY ONE INCLUDING CHILDREN FORM 8YEARS OLD.

  1.THERE SHOULD BE A SYSTEM OF MINIMUM SENTANCING, DIFERENT MINIMUM SENTANCES FOR DIFFERENT CRIMES. A FEW EXAMPLES PREMEADITATED MURDER 30YEARS THAT MEANS NO PAROLL BEFORE THAT TIME, RAPE 20YEARS, MANSULTER 12 YEARS ETC.
  2 FOR EVERY CRIME THAT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE ON THE STATUED BOOKS NOW, AND ANY NEW ONES THAT NEED TO BE ADDED THEY ALL SHUOLD HAVE A ZERO TOLLARANCE AND A MINIMUM SETANCE ATTCHED TO IT BUT CAN HAVE A MAXIMUM SENTANCE APPLIED IF THE COURTS THINKS IT APOPARITE

  rick douglas Sunday 14 March, 2010 - 4:54 PM

• The sentences received by criminals is only PART of the problem. Now, they are sent to low security farms in droves and high security prisons are sitting at WAY below capacity!

  David McInnes Monday 18 January, 2010 - 10:22 AM

• We have reached the point
  where law and order and public safety has become an
  obscene joke.The clowns of
  this circus are the politicians who refuse to pass effective laws,the judges who refuse to make the
  punishment fit the crime,and
  the bleeding heart left who
  cheer them on.And of course
  the joke is on the majority
  of law abiding citizens who
  have all but forgotten what
  it feels like to be safe in
  their own homes and their
  own communities.Mimimum
  sentenances,judges who are
  accountable to the people
  and the idea that if you do
  the crime you do the time
  must become the basis of a
  return to real law and
  order in this state. The first step will be to toss
  Captain Bligh and her useless
  crew overboard at the earliest opportunity.

  peter hansen Sunday 17 January, 2010 - 8:05 AM

• I see no purpose in inviting any member of our State Government, including the Attorney General to a Public forum to address Crime without punishment.
  Only Opposition Mps, Police and citizens should be present with the aim to correct the decay with the next LNP Government.

  The polls have shown the Premier that the writing is on the wall and she may fail at the next election, this would explain all the Global junkets, spend the money while you're still in office, you may not get another chance, they all do it.

  During 20 years of Labor Government, they have only laughed at our protests about putting serious criminals back on the streets and fully suspending sentences, each day it has got progressively worse and if you did a graph of our vanishing justice, it would resemble the fabricated "hockey stick".
  
  I despise the present Queensland Government and so do many who voted for them and volunteered their services at election time, they have told me so and don't make the mistake of assuming that I only vote Liberal, on the 2 occasions when the Coalition ripped up their agreement at election time, they proved "united we stand, divided we fall", idiots never get my vote.

  Leonie Friday 15 January, 2010 - 3:38 PM

• I beleive the only way to stop this drunken violence in our cities, is to put the offenders into a 'drunk tank' and have to go before a magistrate the next morning and be fined a minimum of $500.00 if they cannot pay, not to be released until the debt is paid, and if they reoffend jail time of 10days to 3 months depending on the serverity of the offence. Money and time in jail I feel is the only way these people will learn.

  Kay Betterton Friday 15 January, 2010 - 2:54 PM

• Fab job Michael! - the forum is the only way we are going to get change.
  We need to seriously look at setting up some type of educational system that can be used as a first line of help for juvenile offenders and adult offenders. This system would be used to give basic living and social skills and training in such areas as cooking, cleaning, personal hygeine & health, money management, job readiness, etc. The system should also be available to the average citizen who was interested in these skills - far too often the parenting skills of today do not even teach the basics of life, and thats not just in the lower socioeconomic areas. At minimum if the courts deem the first offence not serious enough for prison then at least the offender should be educated in how they are expected to live and act in the modern society. It might help to have the parent/s of juveniles attend with them for some of the sessions. Second crime you do the time.

  Dee Reeves Friday 15 January, 2010 - 8:51 AM