Committee Details

COMMITTEE’S REPORT

The committee tabled its Domestic and Family Violence Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 on 20 June 2025. The government has three months to respond to the report’s recommendations. Once tabled, the government response will be published here. The report will be debated in the Legislative Assembly in due course.

View:    Report
View:    Executive Summary

ABOUT THE BILL

On 30 April 2025, the Hon Amanda Camm MP, Minister for Families, Seniors and Disability Services and Minister for Child Safety and the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence introduced the Domestic and Family Violence Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 into the Queensland Parliament. The Bill was referred to the Education, Arts and Communities Committee for detailed consideration.

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

The Bill proposed amendments to the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 (DFVP Act) to improve productivity for operational police officers when responding to DFV, provide victim survivors with immediate protections against respondents and make other technical amendments to DFV legislation. The Bill also proposed to amend the Evidence Act 1977 to expand the video-recorded evidence-in-chief (VREC) framework.

The objectives of the Bill:

• establish a framework for police protection directions (PPDs) to improve efficiencies for police responding to DFV and reduce the operational impacts of the current DFV legislative framework. The Bill proposed to empower police officers to administratively issue immediate long-term protection directions without filing an application for a proceeding before a court.
• support an electronic monitoring pilot for high-risk DFV perpetrators, with devices to operate 24/7 and alerts to be monitored and responded to. Safety devices would also be offered to aggrieved persons and named persons.
• simplify, streamline and expand the VREC framework to all Magistrates Courts in Queensland to support victim survivors of DFV when giving evidence.
• clarify that a VREC statement can be considered in civil proceedings under the DFVP Act.
• make other technical amendments to the DFVP Act to strengthen the maintenance of the Approved Provider List (used by courts when making an intervention order that requires a respondent to attend an approved intervention program or counselling facilitated by an approved provider).

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The closing date for written submissions was 5pm on Friday 30 May 2025. Submissions accepted by the committee can be accessed under the “View Submissions” tab above.

Further information

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

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