Ben Smee

The “most senior leaders” in the Queensland police service are the most fiercely resistant to cultural reform and had failed to combat a culture of

Counter-terrorism unit raids home of Morningside man as assistant commissioner says ‘there is no place for antisemitism or prejudice or hatred’

“Adult crime, adult time” is now law in Queensland . Kids as young as 10 can theoretically face life sentences. There are few comparable democracies that have ever sought to punish children as harshly.

Labor’s capitulation on ‘adult crime, adult time’ and David Crisafulli’s abortion gag show both parties struggling to adjust to life on opposite sides of the chamber

A 14-year-old north Queensland boy with a severe intellectual disability was wrongly convicted and sentenced to nine months' detention by a magistrate

When asked to plead, teenager with mental age of an eight-year-old responded ‘yeah’, judge says as he sets aside Kuranda magistrate’s rulings

· 2-min read A woman in her 30s and a man in his 60s have died after a group of riders and a car collided near Armidale, New South Wales police say.

David Crisafulli’s comments come after 63-year-old supermarket worker was allegedly attacked by teen with a knife in Ipswich on Monday evening

Oakey Coal Action Alliance says it will still oppose ‘inappropriate’ mining after abandoning court appeal to stop New Hope Group’s project

At the state level, Labor has legitimised the idea of a ‘tough’ approach by claiming to offer it – then have been thrashed by oppositions promising to be even tougher