New laws include the overriding of the Human Rights Act to allow children to be charged for breaching bail
During the debate of the bill, the police minister, Mark Ryan, boasted that “Queensland has some of the strongest, toughest and most comprehensive youth justice laws in the nation”.“This bill builds on those laws to ensure serious repeat youth offenders are held accountable for their actions and that there are swift and serious consequences for criminal offending,” Ryan said.
The Greens MP for Maiwar, Michael Berkman, accused the government of driving “a baseless, media-driven response that suspends the Human Rights Act on four occasions to deny children their rights”. On Thursday morning the state’s youth justice minister, Leanne Linard, told the ABC the government “has a responsibility to keep the community safe” and did not take the decision to override the state’s Human Rights Act “lightly”.
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