Posted: 2024-09-12 03:37:22

The final question time of this Queensland parliament has wrapped up, with three questions and their responses probably summing up the focus of the week best: crime and personal attacks.

LNP leader David Crisafulli used his first to Premier Steven Miles to ask if he would apologise to victims of youth crime, and his second to ask if Miles’ vote to “weaken” laws in 2016 “created the youth crime crisis”.

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“For us, it’s about keeping Queenslanders safe,” Miles said, pointing to Labor’s community safety bill passed last month.

“The member for Broadwater is following through on the LNP strategy that the police spokesperson put in the Queensland Police Union journal: using crime to win votes.”

Miles, later responding to a question from a Labor backbencher, hit out at Crisafulli’s “secret plans” to cut services and “plans to legislate control of women’s bodies” – a reference to abortion opposition withdrawn under parliamentary rules after Crisafulli rose to take offence.

“The leader of the opposition hopes to stay invisible, hopes Queenslanders never work out who he is, but the fact of the matter is, Queenslanders are smarter than that … you’re just the warmed-up leftovers of a government they rejected 10 years ago,” Miles said.

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