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Despite no crime wave, federal National MP calls for 'tougher' youth laws in NSW
“Some of these older kids, they really need to be locked up, whether in juvenile detention centres or whatever,” said federal Nationals MP Kevin Hogan on January 14. Hogan’s seat of Page sits on the lands of the Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr peoples.
Hogan was being interviewed by James Willis on 2GB Breakfast. Willis suggested the “crime problems in the bush” are taking place in Moree, Kempsey and Dubbo.
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Nationals MPs have seized on an early morning incident in the regional town of Casino on January 11 where three teenagers broke into a house, assaulted a 67-year-old woman, stole her car and then led NSW Police on two pursuits.
However, this one crime does not suggest that a full-scale youth crime wave is underway. Indeed, Queensland and Northern Territory have been pointing out that the “youth crimes wave” is not reflected in official statistics, yet they are passing laws relating to a non-existent youth crime wave.
Hogan told 2GB that he........
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