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ABOUT THE BILL

On 30 April 2025, the Hon Amanda Camm MP, Minister for Families, Seniors and Disability Services and Minister for Child Safety and the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence introduced the Domestic and Family Violence Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 into the Queensland Parliament. The Bill was referred to the Education, Arts and Communities Committee for detailed consideration.

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View: Explanatory Notes
View: Statement of compatibility

The Bill proposes amendments to the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 (DFVP Act) to improve productivity for operational police officers when responding to DFV, provide victim survivors with immediate protections against respondents and make other technical amendments to DFV legislation. The Bill also proposes to amend the Evidence Act 1977 to expand the video-recorded evidence-in-chief (VREC) framework.

The objectives of the Bill are to:

• establish a framework for police protection directions (PPDs) to improve efficiencies for police responding to DFV and reduce the operational impacts of the current DFV legislative framework. The Bill proposes to empower police officers to administratively issue immediate long-term protection directions without filing an application for a proceeding before a court.
• support an electronic monitoring pilot for high-risk DFV perpetrators, with devices to operate 24/7 and alerts to be monitored and responded to. Safety devices will also be offered to aggrieved persons and named persons.
• simplify, streamline and expand the VREC framework to all Magistrates Courts in Queensland to support victim survivors of DFV when giving evidence.
• clarify that a VREC statement can be considered in civil proceedings under the DFVP Act.
• make other technical amendments to the DFVP Act to strengthen the maintenance of the Approved Provider List (used by courts when making an intervention order that requires a respondent to attend an approved intervention program or counselling facilitated by an approved provider).

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The committee invites submissions on any aspect of the Bill, from all interested parties.  Guidelines for making a submission to a parliamentary committee are available here: Guide to making a submission. Please ensure your submission meets these requirements.

Click here to make an online submission to the Bill. 

If you are unable to provide a written submission, please contact the secretariat to discuss other options.

The closing date for written submissions is 5pm on Friday 30 May 2025. 

Submissions must include:

• the author’s full name
• if the submission is made on behalf of an organisation, the level of approval (e.g. a local branch, executive committee or national organisation), and 
• at least two of the following:
• email address
• mailing address, and
• daytime telephone number.

Please ensure your submission includes the above or it may not be considered by the committee.

Please note: Your name and submission may be published on the committee’s inquiry webpage, which will mean it can be viewed on the internet. You can request for your name to be withheld from your published submission, or for both your name and your submission to be kept confidential (i.e. not published). Decisions about whether and how submissions are published are at the discretion of the committee.

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS

The committee will hold a public briefing on the Bill with officers of the Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety on Wednesday 21 May 2025, and a public hearing in Brisbane on Monday 9 June 2025. Public hearings may also be held in regional locations. Further information on regional public proceedings will be published on this page in due course.

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.

Committee’s report

The committee is due to table its report on Friday 20 June 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