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Report No. 16, 57th Parliament - Criminal Law (Raising the Age of Responsibility) Amendment Bill 2021
COMMITTEE'S REPORT
The committee tabled its report on Tuesday, 15 March 2022.
View: | Report No. 16, 57th Parliament - Criminal Law (Raising the Age of Responsibility) Amendment Bill 2021 |
View: | Interim Government Response Final Government Response |
View: | Debate of the Bill in Parliament - 16 August 2022 (pages 2008-2025) |
View: | Introductory speech |
View: | Bill |
View: | Explanatory Notes |
View: | Statement of Compatibility |
View: | Atkinson Report on Youth Justice |
About the Bill
On 15 September 2021, Mr Michael Berkman MP, Member for Maiwar, introduced the Criminal Law (Raising the Age of Responsibility) Amendment Bill 2021 (Bill) into the Queensland Parliament. The Bill was referred to the Community Support and Services Committee for detailed consideration and report.
The explanatory notes state that the objective of the Bill is to ensure children under 14 years of age are not incarcerated or otherwise punished under the criminal legal system, consistent with current medical understanding of child development and contemporary human rights standards.
The Bill aims to achieve this objective by raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Queensland from 10 to 14 years old and transferring any children under 14 years old out of custody. The Bill also aims to negate the consequences of prior offending by children while under the age of 14, including, for example, the creation of records in relation to such offending.
Timeline
Submissions closed: | 30 November 2021, 5:00pm |
Public briefing: | 15 November 2021, 12pm-1pm - transcript - broadcast |
Public hearing(s): | 14 February 2022, 10am-4:15pm - transcript - broadcast |
Report due date: | 15 March 2022 - report |
Related Publications
Publication Details | Type | Published Date | Tabled Date | Committee Name |
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Submissions
- 1 - Dr Michael Williams
- 2 - Australian Lawyers Alliance
- 3 - Queensland African Community Council
- 4 - Dr Meg Perkins
- 5 - Form A - 140 submitters
- 6 - Queensland Family and Child Commission
- 7 - Form B - 88 submitters
- 8 - Eileen Clarke
- 9 - Confidential
- 10 - EREA Flexible Schools Networks
- 11 - YFS Ltd
- 12 - Bar Association of Queensland
- 13 - Michael Holliday
- 14 - knowmore
- 15 - Jan Gillies
- 16 - Cooee Indigenous Family and Community Education Centre, Bidjara Community and Goorathuntha Traditional Owners Pty Ltd, Southeast Qld First Nations Elders Alliance, Bayside Community Justice Group Elders, Brisbane Elders, Knowledge Consulting Pty Ltd
- 17 - Life Without Barriers
- 18 - The Salvation Army Australia
- 19 - Office of the Public Guardian
- 20 - Kanat Wano
- 21 - Children in Care Collective
- 22 - Queensland Council for Civil Liberties
- 23 - Leigh Fraser-Gray
- 24 - Natasha Iselin
- 25 - Tara Wightwick
- 26 - Maureen Reid
- 27 - Suze Collett
- 28 - Amnesty International Australia's QLD N.NSW Activism Leadership Committee
- 29 - Anne-Maree Brady
- 30 - Youth Affairs Network of Queensland
- 31 - Julia Rothwell
- 32 - ANTaR
- 33 - Uniting Church in Australia Queensland Synod
- 34 - Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak
- 35 - Name withheld
- 36 - Justice Reform Initiative
- 37 - Griffith Criminology Institute
- 38 - Anglicare Southern Queensland
- 39 - Beyond Abuse
- 40 - Dr Mary Bastable
- 41 - Caxton Legal Centre
- 42 - PeakCare Queensland Inc
- 43 - Australian Child Rights Taskforce
- 44 - Amnesty International Australia
- 45 - yourtown
- 46 - National Justice Project
- 47 - Common Grace
- 48 - Red Cross Australia
- 49 - Youth Law Australia
- 50 - Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education
- 51 - Change the Record
- 52 - Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action
- 53 - Australian Association of Social Workers
- 54 - The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
- 55 - Youth Off The Streets Limited
- 56 - Human Rights Law Centre
- 57 - Save the Children Australia and Child Wise
- 58 - ANTaR Queensland
- 59 - Queensland Council of Social Service
- 60 - AFL Queensland
- 61 - Queensland Law Society
- 62 - Youth Advocacy Centre Inc (Including Supplementary)
- 63 - World Vision Australia
- 64 - CREATE Foundation
- 65 - Dr Terry Hutchinson
- 66 - Queensland Youth Policy Collective
- 67 - Queensland Human Rights Commission
- 68 - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Women's Legal Service NQ Inc.
- 69 - Public Health Association of Australia
- 70 - Prof Suzanne McGinty, Dr Catherine Day OAM, Prof Max Bennett OA, Cathy O’Toole, Prof Zoltan Sarnyai, A/Prof Calogero Longhitano, Dr Omer Shareef, Aunty Florence Onus, Dr Lynore Geia, Lee Kynaston, Dr Anthony McMahon, Albert Abdul Rahman, Evelyn Edwards
- 71 - Queensland Mental Health Commission
- 72 - Sisters Inside
- 73 - The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 74 - Dr Bruno van Aaken
- 75 - Australian Association for Restorative Justice
- 76 - Dr Bruno van Aaken and Karl McKenzie