JUSTICE:

Queensland’s recently elected Liberal National Party (LNP) government has announced an expansion of its hard-line law-and-order agenda by scrapping all traditional courts across the state and terminating the employment of all judges and magistrates, effective immediately.

Just weeks after legislating the LNP’s “adult crime, adult time” initiative, Premier David Crisafulli has unveiled a new policy that will see the state’s Supreme, District, and Magistrates courts shut down with all court houses being renovated for future use as affordable housing or homeless shelters.

“The first court building to go is the Supreme Court complex in George Street in central Brisbane (main picture) which will be handed over to the Salvos and other welfare groups to house the hundreds of people now sleeping rough each night on city streets,” the Premier said.

“Court buildings elsewhere will either be put to the same use or will be renovated as strata unit apartments and sold at auction to first home buyers.”

Mr Crisafulli said under the government’s new approach all serving judges and magistrates would be sacked and replaced by a new judicial system to be operated by the National Rugby League (NRL) and local NRL clubs.

“I have been impressed by the NRL’s decision to hand Brisbane Broncos’ player Ezra Mam a $30,000 fine backed up by a $90,000 penalty imposed by his own club, plus a nine-game playing ban for driving his four-wheel drive truck when high on drugs including cocaine and causing a head-on car crash which injured a woman and child in the other vehicle,” the Premier said.

“These are the sort of penalties the community is seeking, not the namby-pamby $850 fine wrist-slap Mam was given by a magistrate who also suspended Mam’s licence for six months and  recorded no conviction.

“From tomorrow when courts were due to reopen they will instead remain closed and the NRL will oversee our entire state justice system in tandem with local NRL clubs.

“The hearing of charges will take place at local football grounds using existing grandstands and stadiums, which frees us up to divest all court buildings and help solve the homelessness and home ownership problems at the same time. It’s a win-win for sure,” he explained.

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