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Queensland's police minister has assured schools are safe despite two stabbings in two days. Dan Purdie has ruled out expanding security measures while the father of murdered teen Jack Beasley says the prevalence of knives in schools is frightening.

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00:02Brett and Belinda Beasley, parents of Stab Team Jack Beasley running an education program
00:08at a Townsville school. The brutal and often fatal cost of knife violence on display for
00:15students.
00:16That could be the last conversation I would have had with my brother ever.
00:19There is a lot more knives now starting to show up in schools and that's the real scary
00:24part.
00:25I think it just made like knife violence feel more real.
00:28It was really emotional.
00:29But they're not calling for Jack's Law to be expanded to schools, which allows police
00:34to randomly wand people.
00:36Parents could spend 10 minutes, you know, once a week sitting their kids down and talking
00:41to them about knife crimes, especially the younger ones.
00:44Schools are safe, overwhelmingly safe.
00:46Despite consecutive days of alleged knife crime, the police minister has ruled out rolling out
00:53increased security measures.
00:55We are doing everything we can to restore community safety right across Queensland.
00:58whether it's in people's homes, in the parks or at the schools.
01:02They're the kind of thing you're used to hearing about in places like the United States.
01:07It's also the kind of crime that David Christopher Lee promised Queenslanders he would stop.
01:12The government's 20 months in power has largely centered around what it labels a youth crime
01:20crisis.
01:21But the latest violent incidents since school show a potential blind spot to its hardline approach.
01:27People who commit knife crime now face, particularly juveniles, face adult crime, adult time.
01:32How long has it been?
01:33And they do.
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01:39And they are so interested.

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