St Andrews Foundation Day
IT WAS an honour to be part of St Andrew’s Anglican College’s annual Foundation Day Service recently. This is an important event celebrating the college community, and staff and student achievements. Most notably, this year the service recognised the incredible contribution of Principal Chris Ivey, who will be leaving later this year after 17 years of faithful and dedicated service.
Reverand Ivey has had an enormous impact on the College, successfully guiding it from success to success over the years, and while he will be sorely missed, we wish him all the best for the next stage of his career.
Adult Crime, Adult Time
One of the biggest concerns in our community is, without a doubt, crime. Rarely a day goes by without someone contacting me about this escalating crisis. Last year alone, there were 289,657 victims of crime in Queensland.
Recently, the LNP announced our Adult Crime, Adult Time policy, to restore consequences for actions and hold repeat juvenile offenders who commit serious and violent crimes accountable for their crimes.
It forms part of our Making Queensland Safer Laws, which also includes:
Delivering gold standard intervention programs to divert young people away from lives of crime.
Providing victims with automatic updates to their cases removing the burden on them to seek out information about their cases.
The Staying on Track program, which will provide up to 12 months of intensive support for youth transitioning back into the community after detention.
Reopening the Children’s Court, removing the provision excluding victims and their families and allowing greater media scrutiny.
Fixing the broken residential care and child safety systems to stop the pipeline into youth crime.
I welcome your feedback on these important policy announcements, which will be rolled out before the end of the year if the LNP forms government.