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‘Landmark’ Qld gun laws & Police officer charged, alleged drink driving · The Slippery Slope

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  OK, there's a couple of stories that I want to go through.
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  The first one, first story straight up, I'm going to
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  apologize. I have to show you a picture.
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  It's going to be, it's a bit confronting this picture, but as
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  soon as you open the article, unfortunately this picture comes
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  up. I don't know why they put
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  something like this right at the start of the article.
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  It's my, it's not a pretty, it's not a pretty picture that's at
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  all. It's a little confronting.
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  So I do apologize right now, but I have to go through these two
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  stories. So this is the first one.
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  The red light. On I'm just waiting.
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  For the change. OK, so the first story 0
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  firearms bans issued under landmark Queensland gun laws.
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  Again, I'm very sorry for this photo, this picture, but this is
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  what the Courier man put up with.
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  But so, you know, if you don't want to have a look at this
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  shocking, shocking photo, turn away now.
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  There it is, Shane Breyer, the face of Shane Breyer.
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  I don't know why they put that up there anyway.
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  Queensland Police have not have not handed out a single firearm
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  prohibition on order five months after legislation barring high
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  risk individuals from accessing guns came into effect, with
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  officers claiming the laws are unworkable.
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  The landmark laws passed by the former Labour government mid
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  2024 and commencing in August 2025, was set to improve public
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  safety by barring individuals like high risk domestic violence
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  offenders, those involved in organized crime and terrorists.
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  They were also designed to help reduce the number of illegal
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  firearms in the community and give police this.
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  This is the important section, the important part in my mind,
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  OK, with all this legislation, there's always these extra
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  powers that come up. We, we just have to bring, we
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  have to bring these laws in. We have to make it safer.
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  Remember, it's for your safety, for your protection.
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  That's what it's all about. Oh, and we're going to add this
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  in, too. It also gives police powers to
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  search the homes or cars of someone with an order for
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  illicit weapons at random without a search warrant,
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  without a search warrant. Because the police, or let's put
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  it this way, the government just always wants to.
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  Always wants to you know, wants to intrude on on our privacy.
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  So anything anything that can that can give them further
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  powers. So give them further excuses to
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  search people's property without search warrants, without
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  something else, without some other kind of barrier they will
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  take it they'll bring in these laws on the side, but it's all
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  for your safety for your protection.
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  OK, so the Courier Mail can reveal police have yet to issue
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  an FPO since the law was commenced.
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  Police Police sources said there were just one officer, one
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  officer in the unit responsible for implementing the legislation
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  who was also still working in their substantive role.
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  Well that, that sounds logical, doesn't it?
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  They said officers supported this the scheme, but enforcing
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  legislation was unworkable and overly overly onerous compared
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  to other states like NSW and Victoria.
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  The Career Male also understands officers have been given,
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  haven't been given any training on the scheme.
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  Queensland Police Union president Shane Pryor, that was
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  his, that was his face right there.
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  Shane Pryor, what's he got to say about all this?
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  He's called for an urgent review of the legislation.
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  That's what he always does. The Queensland Police Union
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  supports the application of firearm Protection Orders as
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  another valuable tool in ensuring the safest possible
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  workplace for officers operating in an increasingly violent and
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  unpredictable environment, he said.
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  The fact that zero orders have been issued in Queensland while
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  hundreds have been activated by police in in other Australian
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  states suggests A systemic failure that leaves our
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  frontline unnecessarily exposed. Inaction reeks of bureaucratic
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  inertia, lack of training and poor resourcing, he said.
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  Police will not accept paper tiger laws, the QPU, so the
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  union calls for an urgent review to eliminate the bottleneck that
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  is that is stifling the use of this law, he said.
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  If there this is an interesting line, if there's a senior
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  officer inhibiting its use, then the Police commissioner needs to
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  take decisive action. So just going from that line, it
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  would seem that there may be maybe something else going on in
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  the background, maybe there's another senior officer who's
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  inhibiting their use, the use of this law.
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  Otherwise why would you say something like this if it wasn't
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  actually happening? It's a little strange.
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  I think Queensland was one of the last states to introduce the
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  scheme and the lack of issued Fpos compared to NSW handing out
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  124 Fpos in the first month of legislation in Victoria handing
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  out 560 Fpos in the first year and you say poor?
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  Wow. Queensland data up until 20th.
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  Can I talk properly? Come on Jay.
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  Queensland data up until September the 30th last year
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  showed there had been 395 guns stolen, with 65 of those found.
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  I think I've said this before when I was in generals, when I
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  was in generals, every week you'd get a notice, you know,
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  such and such place that had been been a robbery.
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  There'd been guns taken out of the gun safe.
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  It's like just a weekly occurrence.
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  This amount of guns taken there are besides the besides the guns
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  that are stolen, there's so many guns brought into the country as
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  well. And then you have these laws
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  which is just focused on people. And it's not that I'm
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  necessarily against these laws, but they're they're all focused
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  on people who are trying to get guns legally, you know, and it
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  just encroaches on people who are trying to do the right
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  thing, in my opinion. It's just people who are trying
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  to do the right thing, go about things the right way.
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  They're the ones who are always who are always punished without
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  dealing with the real problem. So Opposition police spokesman
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  Glenn Butcher said it was disappointing that there had not
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  been a single FPO issued under the scheme.
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  We make no apologies for wanting to keep guns away from bikies,
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  terrorists and high risk domestic violence thugs, he
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  said. Tough words.
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  We stand ready to work with the government to strengthen gun
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  control as recommended by the QLD coroner.
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  It comes as a state government continues to review and identify
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  potential changes to Queensland gun laws in the wake of the
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  Bondi massacre. Because as we all know, it's the
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  gun laws, it's the gun laws that caused all those issues, it's
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  the gun. So forget about the fact that
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  those terrorists, the people that follow a certain religious
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  ideology and it, I refer to it as religious ideology.
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  I actually, in my opinion, it's actually more of a political
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  ideology with some, with some religious overtones that that's
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  what it is. It is a political and lifestyle
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  system. That's what it is.
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  It will rule your whole life from politics all the way
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  through. Everything in your life is ruled
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  by this ideology. And the people that follow this
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  ideology had also made bombs. But all they're doing, all the
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  governments are doing is focus on weapons, weapons and people
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  who want who, who would, who want to own guns legally.
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  That's, that's all they're focused on.
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  And no one is addressing the elephant in the room.
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  No one is addressing the people, the people who would come and
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  follow the hatred in the, in the ideal ideology.
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  And look, not everyone who follows this political,
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  religious system hates no one. Not everyone who follows this
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  belief system wants to kill these people, wants to kill
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  other people. Okay, there are a lot of a lot
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  of meant a lot of very nice, warm, loving people in that
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  group. But the fact is the government
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  let a lot of people and didn't do proper, let a lot of people
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  into the country and didn't do proper background checks, didn't
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  keep an eye on what their true beliefs are.
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  Let people in from let's say Gaza, for instance, and didn't
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  bother checking about, hey, you know, maybe there's an issue.
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  We won't bother doing proper background checks.
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  But you know, we'll go and meet them at the gate and shake
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  everyone's hand and say welcome, welcome.
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  Well, we've allowed this problem to come in and now all the
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  government is just ignoring the bigger issue and they're just
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  focusing on clamping down on your everyday citizen who would
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  like to have a gun. Whatever.
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  I don't have a gun. I will probably never, never buy
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  a gun. It doesn't.
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  It doesn't interest me. I've fired lots of guns
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  obviously before, doesn't particularly interest me that
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  much anymore. But they're ignoring the real
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  issue and just trying to it. As I've said, I said in previous
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  podcasts, they use the crisis to clamp down to to take away
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  freedoms to to. They use the crisis to take away
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  the freedoms of everyday people. It just continues to encroach on
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  everyone else's freedoms. But they ignore the actual
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  issues going on. But hi, that's what our
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  government does. And then they always package it
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  in. Well, this is for your piece,
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  for your safety. We're just trying to protect
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  you, the everyday citizen. That's why we need to take away
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  your freedoms and treat you all like idiots.
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  But anyway, Shane Pryor there having his little thing, his
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  little, his little say about all that, I think there, there must
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  be a lot more to it. And that's why he's, he's
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  referencing some other mysterious senior officer who
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  seems to be inhibiting, inhibiting these, this piece of
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  legislation being actually utilized within the QPS.
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  That's what it seems like anyway.
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  The second story we want to get over.
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  We want to get onto this. OK.
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  The second story that I want to get onto in Queensland Police
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  News, police officer charged Rd. Policing and Regional Support
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  Command. When I first read the story,
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  because it's like a 59 year old male Sergeant and I'd read that
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  he was charged with drink driving.
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  I first read it, I thought, oh man, unlucky break.
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  You poor fellow, you've gone, you've made a stupid decision,
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  you've got one year to go before you're forced retirement and QPS
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  and you've gone and made this and you know, put a right smudge
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  against your name doing something really stupid that you
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  should have known better. And then I read further and I
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  realized he was from Rd. policing, so he's a traffic
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  police officer. And then all my pity went out
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  the door. It's just like whatever.
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  So a 59 year old Sergeant from the Road Policing and Regional
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  Support Command has been served with a notice to appear in
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  relation to alleged drink driving.
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  Really. Seriously, he this lad's been in
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  the job for a long time, should know better.
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  And he would have charged mate, you probably wouldn't it.
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  If he's worked in in Rd. policing for any serious amount
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  of time he would have charged countless amounts of people with
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  drink driving and then he's gone and done something like this.
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  This is stupidity, I'm sorry. This is just absolutely
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  reckless. The members being charged with
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  driving whilst over the general alcohol limits allegedly
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  committed while off duty. The officer has been stood down
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  from QPS and is expected to appear in the Cleveland
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  Magistrates Court on 12th of January.
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  So when was that? That was yesterday.
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  In keeping with our commitment to low standards of behaviour or
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  transparency and accountability, we have undertaken to inform the
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  public when a member of the service faces serious
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  allegations of misconduct and just absolute silly, silly,
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  silly behaviour. Seriously.
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  Rd. police in command, drink driving.
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  That is absolutely, absolutely ridiculous.
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  Absolutely someone with your experience, someone with this
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  fellow's experience and the fact that he works within Rd. police
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  in command and you know, pulling people up for their driving
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  behaviour, charging people, drink driving with just bread
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  and butter for those guys. And then he goes and makes
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  exactly the same careless error. Absolutely ridiculous.
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  It'll be interesting to see what actually happens.
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  Comes with that anyway just throw that in there as well.
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  Listen, let me know what you think about these these gun laws
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  here in Queensland again, is this just used you know to
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  enforce more more control upon everyday citizens.
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  Is that what you think? Obviously, I think there's just,
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  they're using the, the crisis just to bring down more laws
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  just to insert and force more control upon everyday citizens.
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  And I, I don't think it's really warranted.
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  And I think they're actually ignoring the real causes, the
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  actual issues that we have in our society.
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  They're ignoring all that. And politicians are ignoring
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  their own behaviour, the own the the things that they've done
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  over the last couple of years, which have actually actually
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  fanned the flames of hatred within our own nation.
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  Politicians, maybe not the current Liberal government here
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  in Queensland, but but governments, politicians in
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  Australia have actually fanned the flames.
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  They've actually helped the hatred burn within Australia.
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  So a lot of them need to take a good hard look at themselves and
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  maybe bring in some legislation which you know, puts the car
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  Bosch on some of their behaviour.
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  Anyway, let me know what you think.
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  I'm Jay Fallon. Thanks for listening.
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  It will take me higher. I'm on fire because nothing's
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  going to bring me down. Nothing's going to be down.
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  Nothing's going to stop me now. No one deals to be done.
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  Nothing 's going to stop me now, and nothing's going to.
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  Hold me. Down got my eye on the eyes got
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  my sign on the drives, it seems no sign.
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  Nothing's going to things go down, doubt me, let nothing's
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  going to stop me now. No, no, no, no.
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  It's going to be uncle myself and now my soul just to focus on
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  the goal. And nothing's going to stop me
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  now, and nothing's going to hold me.