Committee Details

Committee’s report

The committee tabled its Report No. 49, 57^th Parliament - Criminal Code (Serious Vilification and Hate Crimes) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023 on 30 June 2023. The Bill was passed with amendment by the Queensland Parliament on 12 October 2023.

View: Report
View: Government Response
View: Parliamentary debate on the Bill
          October 12 2023 - transcript pages 3022 - 3028. The debate can be viewed by clicking on the movie icon within the transcripts.

About the Bill

On 29 March 2023 the Hon Shannon Fentiman MP, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Minister for Women and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence introduced the Criminal Code (Serious Vilification and Hate Crimes) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023 into the Queensland Parliament.  The Bill was referred to the Legal Affairs and Safety Committee for detailed consideration.  The Bill passed, with amendment, on 12 October 2023.

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

OBJECTIVES OF THE BILL

The Bill will amend the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991, the Criminal Code, Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 (PPRA) and the Summary Offences Act 2005 (SO Act). 

The main purpose of the Bill is to implement legislative reforms as recommended by the Legal Affairs and Safety Committee’s Report Inquiry into serious vilification and hate crimes (No.22 57th Parliament). Specifically, the Bill implements recommendations 7, 8, 9 and 16 of the report. 

In addition to addressing these recommendations, the Bill will amend the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 to increase the existing penalty for the offence at section 131A (Vilification of serious racial, religious, sexuality or gender identity vilification).

Further material about the bill including any written briefings from the department, responses to submissions and questions taken on notice will be available under the Related Publications tab.

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.

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