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	Opposition Motion to Launch Immediate Paedophile Appeal Defeated By Chris O'Brien ABC News October 6, 2010 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/06/3031326.htm The Queensland Opposition is using State Parliament to push for a tougher sentence in a child sex case. Attorney-General Cameron Dick has requested advice about seeking a longer jail term for a teacher convicted of raping students in Toowoomba in southern Queensland. Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek has moved for the appeal to be launched immediately, telling Parliament that the victims have been let down. "Another group of Queenslanders that have been failed by a legal system that's been engineered and populated by more than a generation of socialist left Labor lawyers," he said. "We are paying the price for nearly 20 years of dodgy appointments under Foley, Wells, Welford, Lavarch, Shine and now the current attorney [general]. "They've created a legal system, not a justice system." The Government used its numbers to defeat the motion. Mr Dick says the Opposition is pretending to be outraged to get media coverage. "The preference to use the matter as a stalking horse for a media story, a cloak to cover and hide an unpredictable and unstable political opposition which marries the unwilling, the unfit and the unprepared," he said.
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