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Teachers struggling as abuse from parents, kids rises

Teachers no longer feel safe in classrooms with a rise in abuse from students and parents across the country.

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Youth offenders leaving detention without case plan

Around one in 10 serious juvenile offenders in Queensland are being released from detention centres without a rehabilitation plan, budget estimates has heard.

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‘Harrowing’ footage sparks calls for Queensland government to remove children from police watch houses

Exclusive: Labor MP Jonty Bush among those speaking out about state’s youth justice policies after Guardian Australia investigation

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Screaming, freezing, struggling to breathe: confronting Queensland watch house footage exposes anguish of children locked in isolation cells

Exclusive: Cache of videos obtained by Guardian Australia and SBS’s The Feed lays bare distressing treatment of teenagers – many of them disabled – in police custody

The Guardian - AU

'Fire in belly': call for home invasion sentence appeal

An attorney-general is seeking advice on whether to appeal sentences handed to teens who attacked a former national rugby star's family in a home invasion.

AAP

Qld youth detention 'most expensive, least effective'

Queensland's youth detention model will not achieve community safety if it continues to focus on punishment and containment, a state government report says.

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Queensland Labor’s lurch to the right on youth justice shows a government that’s lost principles and perspective

Premier Steven Miles’ erasure of the human rights principle of ‘detention as a last resort’ for children defies logic

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Homeschooling changes axed from education reform

Homeschooling and suspension appeal rights have been removed from major education reforms proposed by the Queensland government.

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Homeschooling overhaul sparks mixed reactions

The Queensland government has introduced legislation that will ensure homeschoolers must follow the Australian curriculum.

AAP

Most young crooks continue to commit crime: report

The Queensland government has released youth reoffender data as they proceed with changes set to allow greater children's court access for media and victims.

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Program for First Nations child offenders expanded

A program that tries to break the cycle for Indigenous juvenile offenders by sending them to regional areas rather than detention centres will be expanded.

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Other states rebuff Albanese government’s deal with WA to boost public school funding

States say they will not take up co-funded deal, calling for commonwealth to unilaterally close funding gap

The Guardian - AU

Assaults, isolation and deprivation: what life is like at Cairns watch house for children and staff

Exclusive: Rare photo and staff testimonies paint bleak picture of Queensland lockup where situation is said to have reached ‘a tipping point’

The Guardian - AU

New premier announces ambitious climate target

Steven Miles has used his first speech as Queensland's new premier to outline his priorities including an ambitious climate action plan.

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Nearly one in three children on Queensland’s serious repeat offender list under protection order

Government urged to do more to support young people in residential care to ‘break the cycle of offending’

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Queensland to create watch house for children amid fears of looming ‘human rights disaster’

Exclusive: Recently built Caboolture watch house, north of Brisbane, expected to be converted to child-specific facility by October

The Guardian - AU

Queensland may face damages bill for unlawful detention of children in watch houses, lawyers say

Dylan Voller’s solicitor argues new law retrospectively legalising practice could be successfully challenged

The Guardian - AU

Labor MPs incensed by letter they say contradicts Queensland’s stated reason for suspending Human Rights Act

Exclusive: Guardian Australia obtains legal letter that appears to cast doubt on some of the state’s key justifications

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Queensland government repeatedly ignored warnings two years ago of youth prison overcrowding

More than 20 organisations issued warnings long before government’s ‘urgent’ move to override human rights protections for children on remand

The Guardian - AU

Strip searches and suicide attempts: the reality for children in Queensland watch houses

Mental health episodes and other incidents requiring treatment are ‘frighteningly common’ among children held alongside adults

The Guardian - AU

Keeping kids in watch houses: why the Queensland government could change the law to suit itself

Possible ‘robodebt’ scenario left Labor to either move the children or suspend the Human Rights Act – and it chose the latter

The Guardian - AU

Queensland children may have been illegally detained for years, advises state’s solicitor general

New laws that suspend Human Rights Act follow court order for urgent transfer of three children held in watch houses for extended periods

The Guardian - AU

Queensland man who says schools should reconsider the cane joins government’s youth justice group

‘If the parents of kids aren’t able to exercise discipline … then the state needs to be disciplining these kids’, says victims’ advocate

The Guardian - AU

Senior prison official’s court testimony at odds with government spin on Queensland youth detention

For months, the state government has defended conditions inside Cleveland, in the face of accounts by guards, judges and children documenting problematic practices

The Guardian - AU

Case of Queensland teenager who likely spent 500 days in solitary ‘most egregious’ on record

Treatment of disabled Indigenous youth who was regularly kept in room for more than 20 hours a day may amount to torture, advocates say

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