The Latest Breaking News from Belinda Beasley

'Copycat' knife-search powers to spread after election

Victorians will be "wanded" for knives anywhere in public at the discretion of police after the major parties aligned on laws pioneered by Queensland.

AAP · Sep 15

Landmark weapons search laws made permanent

Landmark laws allowing Queensland Police to search people for weapons in public places have been made permanent.

AAP · Jun 11, 2025

No safer place for Schoolies, police minister says

As school leavers party hard on the Gold Coast, an anti-youth violence organisation is carrying out scans to ensure the teens aren't carrying weapons.

AAP · Nov 17, 2024

Racial profiling fears raised as Queensland seeks to expand police search powers

Bill allows officers in certain locations to search people for weapons without having reasonable suspicion

The Guardian - AU · Jan 30, 2023

Jack Beasley's parents reveal true cost of fighting for change to youth knife crime

Three years after their 17-year-old son was stabbed and killed on the Gold Coast, Brett and Belinda Beasley have revealed the personal cost of curbing Queensland's youth knife-crime culture.

ABC News · Dec 22, 2022

Teenager sentenced to 10 years in prison over fatal stabbing of Jack Beasley on Gold Coast

A 17-year-old boy who fatally stabbed teenager Jack Beasley at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in 2019 is sentenced to ten years in prison. Mr Beasley's mother called the culprits "cowards" who left her son to "die on the footpath".

ABC News · Aug 5, 2022