Opposition Leader David Crisafulli is refusing to speculate how he would handle pressure from conservatives to repeal abortion laws if he is elected premier. It comes as Katter’s Australian party leader Robbie Katter says he will introduce a private member bills next term. But Mr Crisafulli wants to maintain focus on youth crime.
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00:00Inspecting a Far North sporting club broken into eight times in the past year.
00:09The last break in here all the windows got smashed and the glass went everywhere.
00:12David Chrisofulli is now targeting children before they go off the rails, promising $50
00:18million over four years in short stay residential programs.
00:23The aim?
00:24To get children back on track before their behaviour escalates.
00:29This might be for someone who has a sibling who has fallen into crime.
00:32It might be someone who's starting to wag school.
00:36The courses would target 10 to 15 year olds, be voluntary with referrals from schools,
00:42police and parents.
00:44The LNP's boot camps, they failed last time, they'll fail again.
00:47David Chrisofulli has now landed in Townsville, but there's one issue he cannot shake.
00:54How he would handle a push from conservatives in the parliament to change Queensland's
00:58abortion laws.
00:59Terminations were decriminalised in 2018.
01:03I'm not going to join the campaign conversation about this because I've made my position very
01:08clear and my position is there will be no change.
01:12But Catter's Australian party has other ideas.
01:15We will as quick as you like put a repeal bill back into the Queensland parliament on
01:20those abortion laws.
01:21Dogged by rumblings from within his own party, Mr Chrisofulli won't say whether he'd allow
01:27a conscience vote on the matter.
01:29I'm telling you today that there will be no change and I'm being up front with you and
01:35telling you there will be no change.
01:37David Chrisofulli says this is all a Labor scare campaign, well I'm scared.
01:41I'm scared of what is coming for Queensland women and girls if they are re-elected.
01:46In Labor heartland, Stephen Miles was trying to woo voters young and old, selling Labor's
01:56health plans, including stage 2 of the Redlands Hospital.
02:04If the polls are any indication, he may have some free time next month.