Scott McDougall alarmed at Palaszczuk government plan to make breach of bail an offence for children
human rights commissioner says he is “deeply concerned” at the state’s plan to charge children with criminal offences for breaching their bail conditions – the first time the Labor government has sought to override protections enshrined in its own Human Rights Act., was tabled in parliament on Monday by the police minister, Mark Ryan.
“It is deeply concerning that the government has sought to exclude the Human Rights Act from the operation of new provisions of the Youth Justice Act, because the government accepts that they are incompatible with human rights,” he said. McDougall also raised deep concern that the government was implementing a policy that experts and others say would result in “an explosion” of the population in Queensland’s buckling youth detention system, but contained no plan to get children out of police watch houses, where about 80 are currently being detained.“I am deeply concerned about the lack of any plan to immediately cease the practice of prolonged watch house detention,” McDougall said.
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