Queensland is frequently portrayed as being in the grips of a worsening crime, epidemic despite data suggesting otherwise. But a trip down memory lane reveals the media has been reporting a similar sentiment for nearly 200 years.

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    811 months ago

    “Honesty and trust are becoming relics of a forgotten era, replaced by deception and malice as the term common decency becomes an oxymoron.”

    • From the Courier Mail in 2023, a Murdoch owned rag.

    Oh wait you’re serious, let me laugh even harder.

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    611 months ago

    I mainly watch ABC but 9 seems to be going crazy over the youth crime thing compared to anyone else, hope the LNP pay them for their campaigning

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    211 months ago

    Presumably if Sir Joh was still in power, he’d put all those youths in boot camps to straighten them out or something, but the current politicians are too soft/woke to do that.