As customer violence against Queensland retail and fast-food workers skyrockets - with assaults jumping from 8% to 26% over six years - SDA State Secretary Justin Power and Jason Matthews on 4BC Breakfast are calling out the state government for failing to introduce workplace protection orders.

Despite proven success in the ACT where similar laws dropped Woolworths store violence by 92%, Queensland remains the sole state holdout, leaving vulnerable young employees facing daily abuse and permanent psychological trauma ahead of the Christmas rush.

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