Page 7 - Ales Walker News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

What can we say? We have been predicting our current crime crisis will lead to the death of innocent people for years. Our worst nightmares came true.

Queensland MPs are set to vote on sweeping euthanasia legislation this year, after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made it a key election pledge. The Courier-Mail went to all MPs for comment to seek their view on the issue, as they await draft legislation from the Queensland Law Reform Commission which is due by May. See what your MP had to say in response to the following questions: Do you support voluntary assisted dying? Will you vote in favour of voluntary assisted dying when the legislation comes before the parliament? See where your local MP stands on this sensitive issue.   Stephe...

  THE number of young criminals fronting Townsville courts has risen sharply over the last five years, with the city recording the highest number of cases in regional Queensland. Since 2016/17, there has been a 62 per cent increase in the number of defendants who have appeared in a local court, with a staggering 1370 defendants appearing before a magistrate or judge. However the way the data is recorded, each appearance by repeat offenders is counted as a new defendant, which means there is no way to tell the actual number of children that appeared in the city's courts from the Magistrat...

Crime by Jessica Marszalek, Thomas Chamberlin 1st Feb 2021 4:55 AM Premium Content   Juvenile delinquents on bail should be fitted with GPS trackers and immobilisers made mandatory in cars according to frustrated police, as top brass launched an extraordinary broadside at parents using cops as "babysitters". A day after Commissioner Katarina Carroll announced police would be taking their ideas for law reform to the Palaszczuk Government, Police Union president Ian Leavers said fitting youth on bail with GPS trackers could he...

FOLLOWING a lifetime in the painting and decorating business, it would be fair to say that Graham Scott brought colour into the lives of everyone he knew. A Souter born and bred, Mr Scott died peacefully at his Hillside Terrace home on Sunday, January 10. He was 87. Graham Scott was born in Selkirk’s Kilncroft on April 12, 1933, to Robert Scott and his wife Jean (whose family name was also Scott). The couple had four other children – Bert, Tom, Margaret and Betty. Educated at Knowepark Primary and Selkirk High School, Graham left school at the age of 14 to begin an apprenticeship ...