Bipartisan parliamentary committee tasked with tackling youth crime, supporting victims is dissolved

A bipartisan committee , tasked with tackling youth crime and supporting victims, has dissolved after a motion was moved in Queensland parliament roughly eight months after the group's establishment was announced.The committee had agreed to table an interim report on April 12, however, that did not eventuate.

"In moving this motion, I must say it is disappointing for all of us to hear that the LNP have played politics with the issue of youth justice," he said.The motion was voted in favour by 49 Labor MPs to 30 LNP MPs who voted against it – no other parties voted.The independent committee was chaired by Independent MP for Noosa, Sandy Bolton, and had six committee members from Labor and the LNP.

Ms Bolton said she was "very sad" and "disappointed" that committee members couldn't come to bipartisan agreement over recommendations in the interim report."As you know, the committee has been working towards the completion tabling of an interim report. "I have regrettably come to the conclusion that this committee is no longer serving the interest of Queenslanders.The committee was also instructed to table its version of the interim report in parliament on Thursday.

"The victims in these matters that we have heard were never the government's concern, if they were would be listening to the recommendations to be included in this report," he said.Announced in state parliament by then-premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in September last year, the Youth Justice Select Committee was meant to "allow for a bipartisan approach examining all aspects of this very complex issue".

In February, on his first parliamentary sitting day as premier, Steven Miles told the House he wanted the committee to deliver an interim report by March 27.

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