Queensland Labor publicly criticised the LNP’s unprecedented youth crime laws – so why did it wave them through?

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

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.

On Thursday, the permanent erasure of fundamental human rights principles passed the Queensland parliament as a sort of anticlimax. The new LNP government, which had flagged the changes since before the election, said the laws were a first strike back" to restore community safety.

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