Committee Details

About the Bill 

On 27 August 2025, the Hon Dan Purdie MP, Minister for Police and Emergency Services introduced the Community Protection and Public Child Sex Offender Register (Daniel’s Law) Bill 2025 into the Queensland Parliament.  The Bill was referred to the Justice, Integrity and Community Safety Committee for detailed consideration.   

This Bill is named as Daniel’s Law, in honour of Daniel Morcombe. The objective of the Bill is to establish a framework for a three-tiered public register. The new public register is designed to:

• increase general community awareness and vigilance by making particular information about particular reportable offenders in certain circumstances and general information about safeguarding children available to the public under a three-tiered register;
• give parents, guardians or other persons who care for children access to information that may allow them to take action at an individual level, to keep children safe; and
• protect against the potential misuse of information about offenders disclosed under the public register and potential harm to offenders and other individuals as a result, for example, arising from acts of vigilante violence.

The Bill will insert a new part 5AA into the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004 (the CPOROPOA), providing for the release of particular information about certain reportable offenders as follows:

However, in line with existing restrictions, the public register will not enable the publication or disclosure of information:

• about an offender who is under the age of 18 years, or who was under the age of 18 years at the time they committed a child sexual offence and has not reoffended or engaged in particular conduct as an adult;
• about an offender who is a participant in a witness protection program; or
• where a court has prohibited identification of the offender or the disclosure or publication of personal information about the offender.

The Bill also provides for:

• several new offences designed to target a broad range of vigilante style conduct and to prevent misuse of the information contained on the register
• a broad protection from liability to persons involved in the administration of the new public register
• a statutory review to be completed as soon as practicable following five years of operation.

Further information

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

Call for submissions

The closing date for written submissions was 10:00am Wednesday, 10 September 2025. 

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS

The committee held a public briefing and hearing on the Bill on Friday, 19 September 2025 at Parliament House.

Committee’s report

The committee is due to table its report on Friday, 17 October 2025. The report will be published here.

Once the committee’s report has been tabled, the Government has three months to respond to the report’s recommendations (if any). At that time, the Government Response will be published here.

Timeline