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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent

Queensland premier vows ‘many more’ changes to youth justice laws as 13-year-old arrested after stabbing

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli speaks during question time at Queensland Parliament House
Queensland premier David Crisafulli has said new youth crime laws, which impose adult penalties for young people accused of certain offences, would ‘act as a deterrent’. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

The Queensland premier, David Crisafulli, has said his government intends to make “many more” changes to the state’s hardline youth justice laws, after the arrest of a 13-year-old accused of stabbing a supermarket worker.

Police alleged the boy attacked the woman with a knife at the Yamanto shopping centre in Ipswich, south-west of Brisbane, on Monday evening.

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