Election resources Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/election-resources/ Fri, 17 Apr 2015 01:18:51 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://journeyonline.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Journey-Logo-With-UCA-logo_Site-identity_Artboard-2_Artboard-2-copy-32x32.png Election resources Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/election-resources/ 32 32 Election notes: 17-year-olds in adult prisons https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/election-notes-17-year-olds-adult-prisons/ https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/election-notes-17-year-olds-adult-prisons/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:30:14 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=19906 Currently 17-year-olds are treated and sentenced as adults in the Queensland criminal justice system. This means that they are dealt with in adult courts and imprisoned in adult jails. Queensland is the only state to treat 17-year-olds as adults in the criminal justice system. The Queensland Synod of the Uniting Church has consistently spoken against ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/election-notes-17-year-olds-adult-prisons/feed/ 0 Election notes: balancing mining activity https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/election-notes-balancing-mining-activity/ https://journeyonline.com.au/queensland-synod-news/election-notes-balancing-mining-activity/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:28:31 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=19904 One Uniting Church congregation has expressed real concern about the legal and property rights of local people impacted by the state government’s establishment of the “Galilee Basin State Development Area”. However, the Queensland government has removed long-standing public rights to object to mines. Previously off-limits areas of western Queensland are being opened up to oil ...

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