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Dan Rennie

Brisbane

Queensland Correspondent at NITV

NITV Queensland Correspondent

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  • Queensland considering making public drunkenness a crime

    1 week ago | sbs.com.au | Rudi Maxwell |Dan Rennie

    Less than a year after laws decriminalising public drunkenness came into effect, the Queensland Government is considering making it a crime again - despite an outcry from First Nations, legal and human rights advocates. In September last year Queensland became the last state to decriminalise being drunk in public, more than 30 years after the move was recommended by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

  • Queensland’s youth crime crackdown sparks deep concerns among First Nations leaders

    1 month ago | teaonews.co.nz | Dan Rennie |Bronte Charles

    This article was first published by NITVQueensland’s hardline crackdown on youth crime has led to thousands of arrests in the first three months of 2025. But Indigenous advocates and community leaders say the real cost will be paid by vulnerable First Nations children caught in a justice system that fails to care for them. — as part of Premier David Crisafulli’s tough-on-crime strategy, which includes the controversial Adult Crime, Adult Time legislation.

  • Queensland’s youth crime crackdown sparks deep concerns among First Nations leaders

    1 month ago | sbs.com.au | Bronte Charles |Dan Rennie

    Queensland’s hardline crackdown on youth crime has led to thousands of arrests in the first three months of 2025. But Indigenous advocates and community leaders say the real cost will be paid by vulnerable First Nations children caught in a justice system that fails to care for them. — as part of Premier David Crisafulli’s tough-on-crime strategy, which includes the controversial Adult Crime, Adult Time legislation.

  • Hope and action: community reacts after Labor landslide

    1 month ago | sbs.com.au | Dan Rennie

    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has secured an historic second term in government following a decisive victory for the Labor Party in the federal election, marking the first time since 2004 that a leader has secured back-to-back electoral victories.

  • The bitter truth behind the history of Australia’s sugar capital

    1 month ago | sbs.com.au | Dan Rennie

    Mackay, in Far North Queensland, is home to the Yuwibara people, who make up 6.2 per cent of the population. Alongside a significant number of South Sea Islanders, many are descendants of the Kanakas, or Blackbirds, a label derived from the form of slavery that bears its name. Blackbirding was the coercive or misleading recruitment of Pacific Islanders for indentured labour in Queensland's sugar and cotton industries by white farm and plantation owners.

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Dan Rennie
Dan Rennie @DanRennie11
8 Apr 24

Covering the inquest into the death of Mark Haines 36 years ago for #NITV in Tamworth. Day 1 https://t.co/pVsF6yL4Re

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Dan Rennie @DanRennie11
11 Jan 24

First interview in the bag for @NITV with the brother Fred Leone #nitv #sbs #fredleone https://t.co/ILKs5ZFpdw

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Dan Rennie @DanRennie11
1 Dec 22

RT @katebanville: “A failure of leadership over many, many years has allowed a culture of sexism, racism, fear and silence to take hold unc…