PHOTO: Bourke Shire Council are taking a stance on accountability for youth crime
Bourke Shire Council has written to Australia’s most important politicians about an issue it has a very particular point view on – changing the criminal age of responsibility.
At the last Council meeting it resolved it would write to the Prime Minister, the Hon Anthony Albanese MP, Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians, the Hon Linda Burney MP, the NSW Premier, the Hon Chris Minns MP, the NSW Attorney General – the Hon Michael Daley MP, the NSW Leader of the Opposition, the NSW Shadow Attorney-General, the Member for Barwon – Mr Roy Butler MP, and the Alliance of Western Councils, expressing “Councils absolute opposition to an increase in the age of criminal responsibility from ten years to fourteen years”…