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Report No. 41, 57th Parliament - Strengthening Community Safety Bill 2023
COMMITTEE’S REPORT
The committee tabled its report on Strengthening Community Safety Bill 2023 on 10 March 2023. The report is available here.
The Bill was debated in the Legislative Assembly on 14, 15 and 16 March 2023 and passed with amendments.
Debate of the Bill in Parliament:
Transcript 14 March 2023 (pages 334-350; pages 361-388)
Transcript 15 March 2023 (pages 431-444; pages 449-482; pages 496-504)
Transcript 16 March 2023 (pages 546-552; pages 565-588)
The debate can be viewed by clicking on the movie icon within the transcripts.
ABOUT THE BILL
On 21 February 2023 the Minister for Police and Corrective Services and Minister for Fire and Emergency Services introduced the Strengthening Community Safety Bill 2023 into the Queensland Parliament. The Bill was referred to the Economics and Governance Committee for detailed consideration and report by 10 March 2023.
- View: Introductory speech
- View: Bill
- View: Explanatory Notes
- View: Statement of compatibility
- View: Statement about exceptional circumstances
Objectives of the Bill
The objective of the Strengthening Community Safety Bill 2023 (the Bill) is to give effect to legislative reforms announced by the Queensland Government on 29 December 2022 aimed at keeping the community safe, and to strengthen youth justice laws to respond to serious repeat offenders. The Bill will do so by amending the Bail Act 1980, the Queensland Criminal Code, the Youth Justice Act 1992 and the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 to:
- increase the maximum penalty for unlawful use or possession of motor vehicles, aircraft or vessels from seven to ten years imprisonment
- create new circumstances of aggravation for the offence of unlawful use or possession of motor vehicles, aircraft of vessels where:
- the offender has published material advertising their involvement in or of the offending on social media
- where the offending occurs at night
- where the offender uses or threatens violence, is or pretends to be armed, is in company and damages or threatens to damage any property
- provide that it is an offence for children to breach a condition of their bail undertaking
- extend and expand the trial of electronic monitoring as a condition of bail for a further two years and to include eligible 15-year-olds
- remove the requirement that police consider alternatives to arrest if they reasonable suspect a child on bail for a prescribed indictable offence or certain domestic violence offences has contravened or is contravening a bail condition
- provide that a child’s bail history must be taken into account during sentencing
- create the ability of a sentencing court to declare3 that a child offender is a serious repeat offender in certain circumstances to enable considerations such as community safety to be paramount
- enable conditional release orders to operate for a greater period of time
- ensure certain child offenders serve their suspended term of detention if they breach their conditional release orders
- expand the list of offences included within the definition of ‘prescribed indictable offence’ to facilitate greater operation of provisions of the Youth Justice Act 1992 aimed at serious repeat offenders, including the presumption against bail provision under section 48AF and the new sentencing regime for children declared serious repeat offenders
- enabling the transfer of persons who have turned 18 years on remand and the earlier transfer persons who have turned 18 years serving a sentence from youth detention centres to adult correctional centres
- ensure the continuation of multi-agency collaborative panels which provide intensive case management and holistic support for young persons identified as high risk or requiring a collaborative response through a multi-agency and multi-disciplinary approach.
Call for submissions
Submissions have now closed.
PUBLIC BRIEFING
A public briefing was held on Monday, 27 February 2023 at 10:30am in Dandiir Room, 5th floor, Parliamentary Annexe, Alice Street, Brisbane.
PUBLIC hearing
Public hearings were held in South East Queensland on Tuesday 28 February 2023, Cairns on Wednesday 1 March 2023 and Townsville on Thursday 2 March 2023.
The live broadcast of these proceedings can be accessed here.
TIMELINE
Submissions closed: | Friday, 10 March 2023 |
Public briefing: | 10:30am, Monday 27 February 2023 - program - broadcast - transcript |
Public hearings: | 12:00pm, Tuesday, 28 February 2023, Brisbane - program - broadcast (part 1) | (part 2) - transcript 10:00am, Wednesday, 1 March 2023, Cairns - program – broadcast (part 1) | (part 2) - transcript 10:00am, Thursday, 2 March 2023, Townsville - program – broadcast (part 1) | (part 2) - transcript |
Report tabled: | Friday, 10 March 2023 - report |
Related Publications
Publication Details | Type | Published Date | Tabled Date | Committee Name |
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Submissions
- 1 - NAME WITHHELD
- 2 - George Dickson
- 3 - Victims of Youth Crime Collective
- 4 - Robert Heron
- 5 - Clynton Hawks
- 6 - Janice Bradley
- 7 - Katherine Keith
- 8 - Julie West
- 9 - Sandra Elton
- 10 - Cairns Regional Council
- 11 - Connie Duncan
- 12 - Uniting Church in Australia Queensland Synod
- 13 - Anthony Bethel
- 14 - Australian Lawyers Alliance
- 15 - CONFIDENTIAL
- 16 - Jayden Reynolds
- 17 - NAME WITHHELD
- 18 - Scouts Queensland
- 19 - Helen Smith
- 20 - Kye Willott
- 21 - Caxton Legal Centre Inc
- 22 - Jenelle Maree Reghenzani
- 23 - Hub Community Legal
- 24 - TASC Social and Legal Justice Services
- 25 - Mareeba Shire Council
- 26 - Lenore Keough
- 27 - Timothy Grau
- 28 - Youth Affairs Network Qld
- 29 - National Therapeutic Residential Care Alliance
- 30 - Schae Gregory
- 31 - Anglicare Southern Queensland
- 32 - Cape York Institute
- 33 - Townsville City Council
- 34 - Justice Reform Initiative
- 35 - Aged and Disability Advocacy Australia
- 36 - Sisters Inside Inc
- 37 - Kelvin Bunyan
- 38 - Ruth Gould
- 39 - Queensland Indigenous Family Violence Legal Service
- 40 - QUT School of Public Health and Social Work
- 41 - Bar Association of Queensland
- 42 - Queensland Law Society
- 43 - Kate Neale
- 44 - PeakCare Queensland
- 45 - Brisbane Youth Service
- 46 - Save the Children Australia
- 47 - Queensland Advocacy for Inclusion
- 48 - Qld Network of Alcohol and Other Drugs Agencies (QNADA)
- 49 - Act for Kids Limited
- 50 - CONFIDENTIAL
- 51 - Queensland Youth Policy Collective
- 52 - Queensland Human Rights Commission
- 53 - Taryn Ozoria
- 54 - The Australian Workers' Union of Queensland
- 55 - The Local Government Association of Queensland
- 56 - The Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (Qld Branch)
- 57 - Redcliffe Area Youth Space
- 58 - CONFIDENTIAL
- 59 - Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak Limited
- 60 - Queensland Family and Child Commission
- 61 - Anglican Church Southern Queensland (Diocese of Brisbane)
- 62 - NAME WITHHELD
- 63 - Queensland Council of Social Service
- 64 - Crime and Justice Action Group
- 65 - Youth Advocacy Centre Inc
- 66 - Institute for Urban Indigenous Health
- 67 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (Qld)
- 68 - Office of the Public Guardian
- 69 - National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
- 70 - Perri Conti plus supplementary submission
- 71 - YFS Legal
- 72 - Community Legal Centres Queensland
- 73 - Queensland Police Union of Employees
- 74 - Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Coalition (QATSIC)
- 75 - Joel Richters
- 76 - Australian Human Rights Commission
- 77 - Queensland Council of Civil Liberties
- 78 - Amnesty International
- 79 - Pam Blamey
- 80 - Caryn Powell
- 81 - NAME WITHHELD
- 82 - Queensland Mental Health Commission
- 83 - Voice of Victims - Toowoomba Advocacy Group
- 84 - Jonty Bush
- 85 - Kevin Keeffe
- 86 - Qld Victim of Crime, Mackay
- 87 - Madonna Doyle