After noticing defendants fare evading and sleeping rough in order to get into the city for a court hearing, two UQ postgraduate students teamed up to do something about it.
Amelia Radke and Bryony Walters have now successfully completed a pilot program, Transport2Court, which provides vulnerable defendants with pre-loaded go cards to assist with the cost of transport to and from court appearances.
The aim of the program is to reduce the number of ‘failure to appear’ charges.
