{"id":21387,"date":"2023-06-10T09:17:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T09:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=21387"},"modified":"2023-06-10T09:17:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T09:17:56","slug":"tough-love-tough-pauline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/06\/10\/tough-love-tough-pauline\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Love \u2013 Tough Pauline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently Pauline Hanson has penned her thoughts on a Greens Senator’s article in Gladstone Today (7\/6\/2023). Senator Hanson\u2019s article comes off the back of that same Green Senator claiming, via Twitter, that Queensland\u2019s crime problem was a \u2018right-wing fantasy\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The escalation of brazen youth crime in regional Queensland is a complex problem that requires complex solutions, but any solution must put community safety and security first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The safety and security of its citizens is the primary responsibility of any government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parliaments must develop laws with penalties that effectively deter or punish crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police must have the personnel and resources needed to enforce the law effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courts must impose penalties that ensure justice for victims and consequences for perpetrators and which meet community expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in many regional Queensland communities, people are living in fear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not panic whipped up by political activism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s genuine and justified fear for the safety of families, children and property caused by the ever-present threat of escalating crime and the seeming powerlessness of the government and police to stop it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little wonder people in impacted communities like Rockhampton are rallying for a stricter approach that puts the congregation before the criminals terrorising them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They’ve had enough of seeing brazen and violent crimes committed by out-of-control youths who, after being caught, are back on the streets the next night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They’ve had enough victims dying in home invasions or accidents caused by reckless hoons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Far-left Greens senator Penny Allman-Payne claims the \u2018far right’ is stoking fear about marginalised communities in this debate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically, the soft-and-cuddly approach to youth recidivism marginalises Rockhampton and other communities in regional Queensland she advocates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These kids indeed have many problems, but this approach has been tried to death and hasn’t worked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They need some stricter love. Greens whipping up panic by conflating a desperate community living in fear with extremists will solve nothing – this isn’t the place for cheap political point-scoring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some excellent programs for young people at risk of falling into the cycle of crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People have developed them from similar backgrounds: community-led solutions by formerly troubled youths who turned things around for themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These programs teach responsibility and self-worth based on genuine achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a strong supporter of these sorts of programs because they make a difference, and I’d rather see troubled kids put in these programs than in a youth detention centre – provided, of course, there is no risk to community safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community safety must always come first. No amount of condescending lecturing by far left about poverty and homelessness will make the community safer, mainly when it’s Labor-Greens climate change and immigration policies causing increased poverty and homelessness in Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Nation doesn’t lecture and doesn’t condescend: we listen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s why we hosted an open community forum in Rockhampton to discuss escalating youth crime in regional Queensland and hear from the community – including Indigenous members who attended – about their experiences, ideas and concerns for their families. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The community must be engaged in the fight against escalating youth crime because, ultimately, it is the community to which government and law enforcement are accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently Pauline Hanson has penned her thoughts on a Greens Senator’s article in Gladstone Today (7\/6\/2023). Senator Hanson\u2019s article comes off the back of that same Green Senator claiming, via Twitter, that Queensland\u2019s crime problem was a \u2018right-wing fantasy\u2019. The escalation of brazen youth crime in regional Queensland is a complex problem that requires complex … Continue reading “Tough Love \u2013 Tough Pauline”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21388,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21387\/revisions\/21388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}