Proposed law changes include allowing children to be detained in adult watch houses for the next three years
This is the same Queensland Labor that, last year, voted against a bill to raise the age at which children can be tried as criminally responsible from 10 to 14. I don’t know how many people here know ten-year-olds, but if you do the Labor Government (and the LNP) think that they are responsible enough to be locked up in prison.
Nobody should be surprised that Labor doesn’t give a fuck about human rights.
I guess that explains why the greens did so well up in Brisbane.
It’s definitely indicative of the difference in attitude between Labor and the Greens more broadly, which I think is why the Greens have done so well in the 2020s.
It’s disgusting. It reminds me of how backwards Queensland was in the Joh years.
I don’t know if I’d go that far, but yeah it’s definitely not good.
Was that in response to the murder of the North Lakes woman in the middle of the night? Around Xmas time?
I don’t believe it was in response to any specific event. That speech was made in September 2021, and it was voted down by Labor and LNP in August 2022. The bill was brought in an attempt to bring us into line with UN recommendations, with the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and with the advice of many professionals in fields like healthcare and child welfare. Basically everyone other than police and politicians knows it’s a good idea.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Police minister Mark Ryan introduced the amendment as part of a swathe of changes to an unrelated bill in state parliament this afternoon.
In the bill’s explanatory note, Ryan said the change – which will expire in December 2026 – was necessary to ensure “immediate capacity issues” in the state’s detention system can be addressed.
Earlier this month, a Cairns based youth organisation took the government to court arguing the detention of children in watch houses for extended periods was illegal.
It’s the second time the state government has suspended the Human Rights Act, after it passed a bill to make breaching bail a criminal offence for children.
Katherine Hayes, chief executive of the Youth Advocacy Centre, said it was “horrifying” the state’s Human Rights Act has been suspended for a second time.
Maggie Munn, national director at Change the Record, says the government’s move to “sneak” the amendments through in an unrelated bill is “outrageous and harmful.”
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