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Report on the Review of the Murri Court
Report on the Review of the Murri Court Report to the Honourable Kerry Shine MP Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Minister Assisting the Premier in Western Queensland Prepared by Natalie Parker and Mark Pathé Strategic Policy Department of Justice and Attorney-General Report of the Review of the Murri Court Department of Justice and Attorney-General: Our Vision A safe, just and supportive Queensland community. Department of Justice and Attorney-General: Our Purpose To deliver open and accessible justice which inspires public confidence, social responsiveness and community harmony. © The State of Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General December 2006 Copyright protects this publication. The State of Queensland has no objection to this material being reproduced but asserts its right to be recognised as author of its original material and the right to have its material remain unaltered. Acknowledgements The authors of the Report wish to thank all those who contributed to the Review, noting especially the Chief Magistrate and other Magistrates, Elders and respected persons, staff who work in and with the Murri Court, community justice group members and co-ordinators and staff and volunteers of other community-based services. The co-operation of the Magistracy, government departments and non- government agencies in the Review is appreciated. The authors of the Report would also like to thank the other members of the Murri Court Review team for their efforts and the many staff members of the Department of Justice and Attorney-General who assisted the project. The Department of Justice and Attorney-General State Law Building 50 Ann Street Brisbane Qld 4000 Telephone: (07) 3239 3520 Fax: (07) 3221 2534 Email: [email protected] Note: This publication is accessible through the Department of Justice and Attorney-General website – www.justice.qld.gov.au. -
2009 QUEENSLAND ELECTION Analysis of Results
2009 QUEENSLAND ELECTION Analysis of Results CONTENTS Introduction ....................................................................................................1 Summary of Redistribution ...........................................................................3 Legislative Assembly Election Summary of Legislative Assembly Results............................................7 Legislative Assembly Results by Electoral District .............................. 12 Summary of Two-Party Preferred Results ........................................... 27 Regional Summaries ........................................................................... 33 By-elections 2007 - 2011..................................................................... 36 Selected Preference Distributions .............................................................. 37 Changes in Parliamentary Membership ..................................................... 39 Queensland Election Results 1947-2007 ................................................... 40 Symbols .. Nil or rounded to zero * Sitting MP in the previous parliament. Notes indicate where an MP is contesting a different electorate. .... 'Ghost' candidate, where a party contesting the previous election did not nominate for the current election. Party Abbreviations ALP Australian Labor Party DEM Australian Democrats DLP Democratic Labor Party DSQ Daylight Saving for South East Queensland FFP Family First IND Independents GRN The Greens LIB Liberal Party LNP Liberal National Party NAT The Nationals ONP One Nation -
Record of Proceedings
PROOF ISSN 1322-0330 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Hansard Home Page: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/hansard/ E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (07) 3406 7314 Fax: (07) 3210 0182 Subject 51ST PARLIAMENT Page Thursday, 10 August 2006 PETITIONS ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 2775 MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................ 2775 Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme ....................................................................................................................... 2775 Supreme and District Courts Complex ............................................................................................................................... 2776 Westgate Development ...................................................................................................................................................... 2776 Yeppoon Hospital ............................................................................................................................................................... 2777 Smart State Academies; Reading Challenge ..................................................................................................................... 2778 Koala Conservation ........................................................................................................................................................... -
QUEENSLAND January to June 2001
552 Political Chronicles QUEENSLAND January to June 2001 JOHN WANNA and TRACEY ARKLAY School of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University Playing Smart Politics with a Divided Opposition On 23 January, after embarking on a three week "listening tour" around the state's shopping centres, jumping on public transport and swimming with sharks, the Premier Peter Beattie called an early election for 17 February 2001 — with six months of his first term remaining. The campaign ran for 26 days, the shortest permissible under the Electoral Act. The catalyst for the snap poll was the damage to Beattie's government caused by the "electoral rorts" scandal involving mainly the powerful Australian Workers' Union faction. While the initial allegations of electoral fraud had involved pre-selection battles in two Townsville seats, the repercussions were much wider engulfing the entire party and bringing down the Deputy Premier Jim Elder and two backbenchers, Grant Musgrove and Mike Kaiser. However, Beattie's political opponents were divided and Labor benefitted from a four-way split among the conservative side of politics and some other conservative independents. From the outset of the campaign, Beattie attempted to present his team as "clean" and free of rorters. He argued that the evidence to the Shepherdson inquiry (see previous Queensland Political Chronicle) demonstrated that the rorters were "just a tiny cell of people acting alone, and they have resigned or been expelled, and I don't believe anyone else is involved" (Courier-Mail, 17 January 2001). As the campaign commenced, it became clear that Labor's campaign was not just organised around the Premier; Beattie was Labor's campaign. -
Queensland January to June 2005 PAUL D
Political Chronicles 595 Queensland January to June 2005 PAUL D. WILLIAMS Griffith University The Economy — Mixed News The year began satisfactorily for the government when a mid-year review forecast a revised budget surplus of $1.1 billion, or $450 million higher than expected (Courier- Mail, 13 January 2005). Equally pleasing was a Queensland unemployment rate of 4.3 per cent, which allowed Queensland, for the first time in twenty-five years, to boast Australia's lowest level (Courier-Mail, 8 April 2005). But some regions grew faster than others, with the Darling Downs becoming Queensland's "powerhouse" with an unemployment rate of just 2.3 per cent (Courier-Mail, 1 February 2005). The state's inflation rate of 0.5 per cent for the June quarter — or 2.5 per cent annually — remained comparable with the national average (www.abs.gov.au/ausstats) . Such robust growth encouraged the Beattie Government to resist Commonwealth proposals to further reform industrial relations. In 2003-04, exports valued at $26.2 billion showed a real decline of 3 per cent, while imports rose 10 per cent. Coal and beef were among the hardest hit, despite generating overall revenue of $8 billion (Courier-Mail, 2 February 2005). Other crises included the closure of a Bundaberg sugar processing plant with the loss of 100 jobs, and Queensland Rail's loss of contract with its largest freight customer, Toll Holdings, a loss attributed to cost increases of up to 48 per cent (Courier-Mail, 11, 22 February 2005). SEQ Infrastructure and the Budget — Counterbalance to Crises The Beattie Government pre-empted its own budget with the announcement in late April of its long-awaited Southeast Queensland Regional Plan, a bold $55 billion capital works vision covering some 230 separate projects designed to accommodate the one million additional residents expected to settle in the state's southeast over the next 596 Political Chronicles twenty years. -
Queensland July to December 2005
304 Political Chronicles Queensland July to December 2005 PAUL D. WILLIAMS Grth University Observers of Queensland politics could be forgiven for thinking only one issue occupied the state's public sphere in the latter half of 2005: the management (or mismanagement) of health policy. Indeed, the allegations that an allegedly negligent, overseas-trained surgeon caused numerous patient deaths at Bundaberg Hospital (first raised in April 2005 — see previous chronicle) were so convulsive in their effect on the public mood that we may remember 2005's "Dr Death" saga as the principal turning point downwards in the electoral fortunes of Premier Peter Beattie. Moreover, damaging accusations of a "culture" of secrecy within Queensland Health that obfuscated evidence of malpractice directly or indirectly spawned a series of significant events, including four inquiries (of which three were judicial), a ministerial dismissal, two lost by-elections, a reformed Liberal-National coalition and, of course, a collapse in the government's and the Premier's public opinion leads. The Economy The state of the Queensland economy, while generally good, was perhaps less sanguine than many had hoped. While unemployment mid-year stood at just 3.9 per cent, then the second lowest in the nation (Courier- Mail, 8 July 2006), by year's close it once again had climbed toward 5 per cent (http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs%40.nsf/mf/6202.0) . Inflation, too, proved challenging, with the consumer price index increasing 0.8 percentage points in the December quarter (http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/ abs%40.nsf/mf/6401.0). -
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30 October 2005 The Honourable Linda Lavarch MP Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Parliament House BRISBANE QLD 4000 Dear Ms Attorney-General Pursuant to section 16(1) of the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1984, I present to you a report on the operations of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for the financial year of 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005. This is the nineteenth full-year report furnished regarding the operations of the Office. Director’s guidelines are also included pursuant to the requirement of section 11(2)(b) of the Director of Public Prosecutions Act. Yours faithfully L J Clare DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS Level 5 State Law Building 50 Ann Street Brisbane GPO Box 2403 Brisbane Queensland 4001 Australia DX 40170 Telephone: +61 7 3239 6840 Facsimile: +61 7 3220 0035 Website: www.justice.qld.gov.au ABN 13 846 673 994 Table of contents Director’s overview . 5 Introduction . 7 Organisation of the Office . 8 Prosecution achievements 2004–05 . 12 Victim liaison services . 19 Regional offices . 20 Training . 24 Glossary of terms . 26 Appendix 1 Director’s guidelines . 31 Appendix 2 Budget and expenditure . 78 Appendix 3 Staffing levels/establishment . 79 Director’s overview This past financial year was a year of opportunity and enormous change for us, precipitated by the May 2004 publication of a major review of the operations of the office and its relationships within the Department of Justice and Attorney-General. I am proud of the level of energy and commitment my staff have applied to the challenges of implementing the review recommendations. -
A Critical Analysis of the Purposes of the Queensland Police Move-On Powers
The reasons and the reality: A critical analysis of the purposes of the Queensland police move-on powers Megan McKay Bachelor of Arts Humanities Program Queensland University of Technology This thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Honours) 2008 “The legislation spells out clearly what it [the Queensland police move-on powers] is to be used for. We are not singling out any particular group” – The Honourable Theo Cooper (then Minister for Police and Corrective Services and Minister for Racing) (Queensland Parliament, 1997c, p. 4393). “Move-on powers are not focused on any particular age group, sex, colour or race within the community. They only come into play when a person acts in a manner contrary to public interest as determined by this parliament” – The Honourable Judy Spence (then Minister for Police and Corrective Services) (Queensland Parliament, 2006d, p. 1814). Interviewer: …You’ve already kind of said young people may be being disproportionately targeted using the powers – do you feel there are any other demographic groups that may be… Jordan: Yeah. Interviewer: …targeted? Jordan: Well, Indigenous people, obviously, and people with mental illness. Ah, they’re the, the main one and, y’ know, homeless people. Megan McKay 04404254 ii Note Where reference is made in this thesis to a piece of legislation or policy that is currently in force, the version of the piece of the legislation or policy referred to is that which was in force as on October 9, 2008. Amendments to these legislative acts and policies, including their repeal, may have been made subsequent to this date. -
Queensland January to June 2004
Political Chronicles 605 Queensland January to June 2004 JOHN WANNA Political Science Program, Australian National University, and Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University A Re- Pete Landslide at the 2004 State Election Premier Peter Beattie caught the opposition completely by surprise announcing the state election on 14 January, while most Queenslanders were still on holiday. The Opposition Leader, Lawrence Springborg, working on his farm, raced back to Brisbane, while the Liberals' Leader, Bob Quinn, caught an early flight interrupting his family holiday in Sydney. Just as with the 2001 poll, Beattie's timing meant the campaign would occur over the summer break with few paying attention to politics. Beattie's repeat of a successful tactic reeked of opportunism. Beattie brought on the snap poll in an attempt to clear the air over systemic maladministration exposed in the Families Department. The department charged with protecting children had failed to act in hundreds of cases of child abuse — especially children in foster case and particularly indigenous children. The public inquiry held by the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) in 2003 discovered a culture of cover- up in the besieged department. Even when given evidence of cases of sexual abuse it felt powerless to act and often did not forward matters to the police. The CMC produced an interim report in January 2004 citing 110 recommendations for change. Beattie admitted publicly that both his government and the department "had failed" and that he would provide funding to implement the reforms (Courier-Mail, 7 January 2004). He stated his intention of seeking a mandate to fix the foster care crisis. -
Queensland July to December, 2006
Political Chronicles 301 Queensland July to December, 2006 PAUL D. WILLIAMS Griffith University and The Courier Mail Overview The last half of 2006 saw some government crises — health and water — continue, and new crises emerge over scandals involving former ministers and protests over dams and Palm Island. But a lacklustre — even self-immolating — Opposition failed to 302 Political Chronicles exploit these dramas that, after a change in the Liberal leadership, saw the Labor government comfortably returned at an early general election. Before the Storm... Health issues again launched the period when news leaked of a memo from Queensland Health Director-General Uschi Schreiber that hospital surgery waiting lists remained static, despite government advertising, costing more than $3 million, claiming the contrary (Courier Mail, 10 July, 2006). But water remained the government's principal concern. In considering two dam proposals, Premier Peter Beattie faced angry protestors in July at Rathdowney (near Beaudesert), only to tell them that Wyralong (near Boonah) would be the new dam site, and not Tilley's Bridge. Fifteen properties at Boonah were set for resumption at a cost of $30 million. But Beattie's problems had only begun at the Traveston Crossing (near Gympie) dam site. Despite offering the "good" news of halving the dam's size, the premier still faced 2,000 hostile locals. Noosa Labor MP Cate Molloy continued her opposition to the dam (see previous chronicle) and voted with the Opposition at an Estimates Committee hearing in demand of the tabling of all related documents. Around the same time, the Premier launched into capital works overdrive and announced $10 billion of infrastructure spending over four years, largely, it was assumed, to placate an anxious business community before the state election. -
Migration Settlement Multiculturalism
Dr Sev Ozdowski AM Director, Equity and Diversity at the University of Western Sydney and Adjunct Professor in the Centre of Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University PO Box A959, Sydney South NSW 1235 Ph: 0413 474744 E-mail: [email protected] Relevance of Australian Immigration and Multicultural Experience to Poland and Contemporary Europe1 1. INTRODUCTION Allow me to start with congratulating Collegium Historicum of the Adam Mickiewicz University, and in particular its Dean, Professor Prof Kazimierz Ilski, on the idea of organising this very timely and important conference entitled “Immigration and Multiculturalism in XXI Century. The Case of Poland.” Although contemporary Poland could be described as a predominantly mono-cultural country, it has a rich multicultural past. The recent influx of migrants and refugees to Europe from Northern Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere may impact on Poland and its standing in the international community. It is therefore timely to review the experience other countries have had in this area and the applicability of such experience to the responses being considered by Poland and her European partners. Just a few words to introduce myself. I am an alumnus of this great University, having graduated from law and sociology here in 1971 and 1973 respectively. In 1975 I migrated to Australia where I have spent most of my life working both for the national government and in academia. In particular, I have spent most of my working years in the advancement of multicultural and human rights policies -
297678 Monday, 8 August, 2005
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