Phillip Thompson (Herbert, Liberal National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Townsville has been ravaged by youth crime for many, many years, and it has been compounding and compounding. People feel like prisoners in their own home. What we need to see is action and change of legislation by the state Labor government. We had to drag the state government across the line to make breach of bail an offence, but now we really need them to stand up. People are too scared to go out at night. People are terrified to go to events. Their cars are getting carjacked on the streets. Their homes are getting broken into. People are being rammed in the back by stolen cars. There are criminals with machetes, and they're receiving no jail time. We need the laws to be stronger. We need the laws to represent community expectation, and we need a state government that listens to its people.

House adjourned at 19:59