Youth advocates and peak organizations have criticized the LNP government's proposed youth justice bill, the Making Queensland Safer Bill, for potentially violating human rights and disregarding evidence-based approaches.
A parliamentary inquiry into the LNP government’s proposed changes to youth justice laws has drawn heavy criticism from youth advocates and peak organisations, with concerns the legislation violates human rights and disregards evidence-based approaches .
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli promised to prioritise legislative changes to youth crime laws if elected, and has so far kept his word.Youth Advocacy Centre chief executive Katherine Hayes acknowledged the tragedies that had occurred because of young offenders, but rejected the bill’s punitive aims.
“Children interacting with the youth justice system have high levels of physical cognitive and neurological disabilities, cognitive impairments, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, traumatic brain injury, learning difficulties and mental health issues.“All of these issues are connected to the behaviour which becomes problematic, criminal behaviour.”
“This bill will place Queensland as an outlier in respect of our dealing with child offenders in comparison to all Australian jurisdictions...it also involves numerous provisions which are clearly,Program director for Sisters Inside, an advocacy group for the rights of women and girls in prison, Zofia Wasiak, condemned the “racial, gendered violence that this legislation will perpetuate” and called for an end to the “criminalisation and incarceration of children”.
Hearings will continue in Townsville on Tuesday, with written submissions closing midday, December 3. The committee is due to table its report on Friday, December 6.introduce ‘adult crime, adult time’;
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