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As Queensland licks their wounds from last night's State Of Origin result, the entire state is now experiencing the usual existential crisis that occurs every time New South Wales manages to defeat them.
The fact that this game III heist took place at Suncorp Stadium has only rubbed salt in the wounds.
Not even 50,000 screaming Queensland fans could save the Maroons from the agonising 12-30 loss to the Blues in last night's cruel decider.
Despite the fact that Queensland has dominating the interstate series with an 80% win rate over the last two decades - last night's loss is still causing pause for concern.
This now means that the Blues have won two of the last three series.
It also means the Blues have won the last two deciders at Suncorp.
It also means that there's Queensland kids that are almost old enough to enter the state's prison system who've never ever seen a win at Suncorp.
Initially rolled out as a 2024 state election policy in the wake of what the media decided was an increase in youth crime, Queensland's landmark 'Adult Crime, Adult Time' laws now mean that Kindergarten-age kids can be sent to prison for sentences that are just long as adult offenders would receive.
This means that there are now young Queensland kids who may never see a win at Suncorp, because they are almost old enough to enter the revolving door of the prison industrial complex - which as we know, is usually a life sentence.
A recent report from Queensland Corrective Services notes that 44 per cent of offenders sentenced to prison who were released from jail in 2022-23 returned to custody within two years after reoffending.
This means that if one of the thousands of Queensland's institutionalised kids haven't seen a win at Suncorp before the age of ten, almost half of them never will.
The Maroons need to turn this around before 2027!
