As the Queensland Government talks tough following the tragic death of a Brisbane teenager, anti-violence groups say the state isn't giving them the funding they need to fix the problem.

18-year-old Cole Miller died in hospital yesterday morning when his family turned off the machines that had kept him alive after an unprovoked attack in Brisbane's nightclub district.

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Whatsapp The growing memorial for Cole Miller on Duncan Street in Fortitude Valley on January 5, 2015. Mr Miller was allegedly assaulted there on January 3 and died in hospital the next day.

The two men accused of the attack, Armstrong Renata and Daniel Maxwell, both 21 years old, appeared in court today charged with unlawful striking causing death.

Unlawful striking laws carry a maximum penalty of life in prison and were introduced in 2014 as part of the Newman Government's Safe Night Out strategy to address alcohol-fuelled violence.

But Queensland's Government doesn't think the current measures go far enough and have used Cole's death to reaffirm their campaign for earlier nightclub closing times and a ban on high alcohol drinks after midnight.

"For every hour that alcohol consumption is reduced, the number of alcohol-fuelled violence incidences reduces dramatically," Deputy Premier Jackie Trad said today.

State-wide laws to restrict the sale of alcohol to before 2am and ban the sale of shots after midnight, among other measures, are due to be voted on early this year.

"We know from the evidence, from the Newcastle trial as well as the Kings Cross trial, we know that the incidents of alcohol-fuelled violence, the number of cases presenting to emergency departments in the early hours because of alcohol-fuelled violence, has dramatically decreased," Trad said.

But despite the strong words from the Queensland Government on alcohol-fuelled violence, anti-violence groups claim their funding has dried up.

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Whatsapp Mourners lay flowers at a vigil for fatal one punch attack victim Cole Miller in Chinatown, Brisbane on January 4, 2016.

No money getting to anti-violence campaigners

One Punch Can Kill, run by the Queensland Homicide Victims Support Group (QHVSG), is one of several campaigns who say they haven't received any cash from the current Queensland government.

It launched in 2007 but QHVSG general manager, Ross Thompson, says the current state government hasn't contributed to the campaign, despite the previous Newman and Bligh governments offering funding.

It's heart-wrenching to see yet another one fall, which we could have prevented."

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Whatsapp An image previously used to advertise the One Punch Can Kill campaign

"That's the part that really frustrates me is the fact that we could have helped prevent this and all it needed was a bit of funding from the Government to get [the One Punch] message across," Ross says.

"We've submitted a business case to [the Queensland Government], we've done everything they've ever asked of us, and we're still sitting here with no funds for the [One Punch] campaign."

While Ross supports the Queensland Government's alcohol fuelled violence plan he says it only addresses part of the problem.

"There's a lot of thoughtless people out there. They just don't think before they act and that's where we need to get the campaign out in their face.

"We've got to be able to afford to put posters in clubs, we've got to be able to afford to put programs in malls, like Chinatown in The Valley."

The Queensland Government has allocated more than $4 million over the next four years to alcohol-fuelled violence awareness campaigns, spending almost a million of that on the What's your relationship with alcohol campaign last year.

Queensland's Deputy Premier, Jackie Trad, understands the Government recently discussed funding for the One Punch campaign with the QHVSG but wants more details from the group before handing out any money.

One Punch isn't the only anti-violence campaign left in the cold, the Just Let it Go foundation hasn't received funding from the Queensland Government either.

The foundation's director, Simon Turner, has set up the group over the last six months without any government assistance.

"What's disappointing is that [the government] believes that waving the magic pen from the ivory tower and prescribing legislation is going to change the behaviours of young people.

"We all unequivocally know that if we want to see a change in behaviours then we need to invest in the demographic we need to see that social change occur."

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It's not just alcohol-fuelled violence campaigns that have struggled to receive funding. The Not On campaign, launched by the Queensland music industry and backed by White Ribbon to raise awareness and address domestic violence, also hasn't received any cash.

Deb Suckling from Sugar Rush Records had hoped to distribute Not On's anti-domestic violence shirts in licensed venues, while also training bar staff to recognise the signs of domestic violence.

"We actually thought it was a really good, and cheap, campaign to run," Deb says.

The Newman Government's Safe Night Out strategy made money available for anti-violence campaigns in Queensland's entertainment precincts, but when Deb asked for money in the second half of 2015 she was told applications had closed and there was no timeframe for when they'd reopen.

Deb remains hopeful some cash will come through eventually.

"It would be something that would be really easy to get up and run with. It doesn't take a lot of money.

"What we could do with $10,000 is outfit so many venues."

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Whatsapp Members of Brisbane band, The Grates, wearing Not On t-shirts

Funding delayed by bureaucracy

The Queensland Government re-opened applications for Safe Night Precinct programs in early December but Nick Braban, the chairman of the Valley Liquor Accord (a peak body for Fortitude Valley's bars and clubs), says it came too late to fund anti-violence campaigns over Christmas and the New Year.

"It's the first holiday season I can remember when we haven't had a campaign in the precinct around behaviour and anti-violence.

"Funding streams that were accessible under the previous government were not accessible for a good part of last year, despite being budgeted for, and this really put the brakes on good ideas that wouldn't have necessarily prevented this tragedy but would have started the long process of changing the way people behave and the way people treat each other."

Queensland's Government had been providing regular funding to Safe Night Precincts for various safety efforts.

While both Bundaberg and Airlie Beach got some funding towards the end of 2015, it was for programs they applied for in June. Applications closed then and only reopened at the start of December.

"A long bureaucratic and administration process has held up funding rounds being opened so we haven't been able to access that money despite having everything ready to go and the ability to roll it out really quickly," Nick Braban says.

Under Queensland's previous Government funding had been dished out every three months, with Safe Night Precincts eligible for $50,000 each cycle.

Queensland's Office of Liquor and Gaming, which administers these grants, said a review of the program was partly to blame for the delay in funding rounds, promising there would still be four rounds in the 2015/ 2016 financial year.

The Valley Liquor Accord is a group that's rallied against earlier closing times in the past, but Nick Braban says it's not the time to engage in that argument.

"If Government feels that [shorter] trading hours are the way to go that's fine, but we really need to focus on the bigger picture as well or we're not going to change anything."