Committee Details

Committee’s report

The committee tabled its Report No. 9, 58th Parliament - Making Queensland Safer (Adult Crime, Adult Time) Amendment Bill 2025 on 16 May 2025. The Bill was passed without amendment, by the Queensland Parliament on Wednesday, 21 May 2025. 

About the INQUIRY 

On 1 April 2025, the Premier and Minister for Veterans introduced the Making Queensland Safer (Adult Crime, Adult Time) Amendment Bill 2025 (Bill) into the Queensland Parliament. The Bill was referred to the Justice, Integrity and Community Safety Committee for detailed consideration.

View: Explanatory speech
View: Bill 
View: Explanatory Notes 
View: Statement of compatibility

The Bill will amend section 175A of the Youth Justice Act 1992 (YJ Act) to introduce ‘adult crime, adult time’ for an additional 20 criminal offences under the Criminal Code and Drugs Misuse Act 1986 including: 

• Going armed so as to cause fear
• Threatening violence
• Attempt to murder
• Accessory after the fact to murder
• Assaulting a pregnant person and killing, or doing grievous bodily harm to, or transmitting a serious disease to the unborn child
• Torture
• Damaging emergency vehicle when operating motor vehicle
• Endangering police officer when driving motor vehicle
• Rape
• Attempt to commit rape
• Assault with intent to commit rape
• Sexual assault, if involving any part of the mouth or while armed, in company, or involving penetration
• Kidnapping
• Kidnapping for ransom
• Deprivation of liberty
• Stealing, a vehicle or a firearm for use in another indictable offence
• Attempted robbery, if armed or in company or armed and with violence
• Arson
• Endangering particular property by fire
• Trafficking in dangerous drugs.

The Bill also contains additional technical amendments to the YJ Act to allow for persons automatically registered on the victims’ register to ‘opt out’ of receiving information directly regarding an offender’s movements and to remove a reference to a repealed section of the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000. 

Further information

Further information including written briefings, correspondence, response to submissions, transcripts and answers to questions taken on notice will be available under the Related Publications tab.

Call for submissions

Submissions closed on Wednesday, 16 April 2025. Submissions accepted by the committee can be accessed under the “View Submissions” tab above.

Timeline