Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Pauline Hanson's One Nation supports this motion. Firstly, honesty is essential, so let's be blunt. This applies to kids of all skin colours. The current catch-and-release policies are failing. Incarceration fails can turn juvenile offenders into hardened criminals. The foremost responsibility is community safety, to keep people safe from derailed juveniles. The root cause, though, is at a community level and involves the whole family, because the root cause is dysfunctional families abusing kids, neglecting kids and allowing kids to wag school and roam the streets. Elders in white and black communities have lost their influence. Solutions, though, need to be rigorous and not feel-good pandering. We need proper, tough, rigorous programs like boot camps that care and that develop meaning and purpose, such as Three Big Rivers, Hard Yakka, Black Rock and what they're trying to do now in Townsville at One Community One Standard. We support this motion.