PHOTO: Bourke Shire councillor Lachlan Ford spoke at the hearing on 1 October. PHOTO: supplied
State politicians heard firsthand in Bourke this week how community leaders think youth crime should be tackled in their shire.
The chair of the parliament’s Law & Safety Committee, Member for Mount Druitt Edmond Atalla, was at the hearing at Back o’ Bourke Information and Exhibition Centre on Tuesday 1 October as part of an inquiry probing the causes of youth crime in the regions.
Bourke PCYC manager Rozaria Suckling told the hearing that young people are running into trouble because they consider jail safer than home…