Committee Details

About the INQUIRY 

On 1 April 2025, the Premier and Minister for Veterans introduced the Making Queensland Safer (Adult Crime, Adult Time) Amendment Bill 2025 (Bill) into the Queensland Parliament. The Bill was referred to the Justice, Integrity and Community Safety Committee for detailed consideration.

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

The Bill will amend section 175A of the Youth Justice Act 1992 (YJ Act) to introduce ‘adult crime, adult time’ for an additional 20 criminal offences under the Criminal Code and Drugs Misuse Act 1986 including: 

• Going armed so as to cause fear
• Threatening violence
• Attempt to murder
• Accessory after the fact to murder
• Assaulting a pregnant person and killing, or doing grievous bodily harm to, or transmitting a serious disease to the unborn child
• Torture
• Damaging emergency vehicle when operating motor vehicle
• Endangering police officer when driving motor vehicle
• Rape
• Attempt to commit rape
• Assault with intent to commit rape
• Sexual assault, if involving any part of the mouth or while armed, in company, or involving penetration
• Kidnapping
• Kidnapping for ransom
• Deprivation of liberty
• Stealing, a vehicle or a firearm for use in another indictable offence
• Attempted robbery, if armed or in company or armed and with violence
• Arson
• Endangering particular property by fire
• Trafficking in dangerous drugs.

The Bill also contains additional technical amendments to the YJ Act to allow for persons automatically registered on the victims’ register to ‘opt out’ of receiving information directly regarding an offender’s movements and to remove a reference to a repealed section of the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000. 

Further information

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

Call for submissions

The committee invited submissions on any aspect of the Bill, from all interested parties. Submissions closed on Wednesday, 16 April 2025. You can view submissions accepted by the committee on the Submissions tab above.

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS

The committee will hold a public hearing and a public briefing (by officers of the Department of Youth Justice and Victim Support) in Brisbane on Monday, 28 April 2025.  

The committee will hold public hearings in regional Queensland between Tuesday, 6 May 2025 and Thursday, 8 May 2025. 

See timeline below for further information.

Committee’s report

The committee is due to table its report on Friday, 16 May 2025. The report will be published here.

Once the committee’s report has been tabled, the Government has three months to respond to the report’s recommendations (if any). At that time, the Government Response will be published here.

Timeline