Slashing crime is top of the new government’s agenda in its first sitting week, but other challenges loom
For just the second time in Queensland’s history, a modern Liberal will sit in the premier’s chair in state parliament this week.
“That’s the commitment we made Queenslanders, and they will be law by the end of the year,” Crisafulli said. The legislation will extend the maximum sentence for a range of offences, including a mandatory life sentence for child murderers many lawyers warn would be contrary to the state’s human rights acts.
On Monday, the Labor leader, Steven Miles, said the government had a mandate for the bill. It was “really the only policy that the LNP took to the election”, he sniped.“This is the policy that they took to the election, we accept that they did so, and questions about its appropriateness really should be directed to them,” he said.Amid all of the ceremony of the first week of parliament, the government will get started on a number of its other major priorities.
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