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16 November 1911 – George David Silva shot and bludgeoned six members of the Ching family near Mackay, Queensland. 8 June 1913 – 11-year-old Ivy Mitchell was raped and murdered on her way home from school near Samford, Queensland by Ernest Austin; he was the last person in Queensland to be hanged.
Crime Stoppers Queensland was established in 1989. [11] In August 2013, the Queensland Police Service launched an online crime map to provide crime data to the public. [12] In October 2013, the Newman government led an unprecedented crackdown on outlaw motorcycle clubs. [13] In March 2023, Queensland police were given a substantial rise in powers.
Mackay (/ m ə ˈ k aɪ / [3] [4] [5]) is a city in the Mackay Region on the eastern or Coral Sea coast of Queensland, Australia. [6] [7] It is located about 970 kilometres (603 mi) north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is described as being in either Central Queensland or North Queensland, as these regions are not precisely
Mackay, Queensland: 4 0 4: Ching family murders: A man killed a family of six. Four of the victims were killed with firearms. 29 June 1907: Richmond, Queensland: 1 7 [n 1] 8: A man fired from a wagon at people, killing one person and wounding six others. The shooter was wounded and arrested. [83] 6 October 1903: Hay, New South Wales: 0 4 4
The Mackay Region is a local government area located in North Queensland, Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it was preceded by three previous local government areas with modern histories extending back as far as 1869.
The City of Mackay was a local government area located in the Central Queensland region of Queensland, Australia, encompassing the regional city of Mackay and the surrounding region. The City was created as a municipal borough in 1869, and prior to amalgamation with the Shire of Pioneer in 1994, the City was limited to the central suburbs on ...
Mackay is the central suburb and the central business district of the City of Mackay in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census , the suburb of Mackay had a population of 4,026 people.
In 2016–2017, the offender rate, which is the number of offenders in the population of Australia, increased slightly from 1.98% to 2%. The youth offender rate decreased for the seventh consecutive year in 2016–17; between 2009–10 and 2016–17, the rate fell from 3,339 to 2,330 offenders per 100,000 persons aged 10 to 17. [12]