Change the present practice of dealing with young people under the age of 18 years as adults within the Queensland criminal justice system

Eligibility - Queensland citizens
Principal Petitioner:
M Graves
PO Box 10012
MACKAY QLD 4740
Total Signatures - 36
Sponsoring Member: Tim Mulherin
Posting Date: 29/9/2004
Tabled Date: 29/9/2004
Responded By: Referred Minister
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

The petition of the citizens of Queensland draws to the attention of the
House the present practice of dealing with young people under the age of
18 years as adults within the Queensland criminal justice system. Young
people under the age of 18 are not considered to be adults for the
purpose of buying and consuming liquor responsibly, enter a legally
binding contract or to vote in local, state and federal elections;
however they can be remanded in custody and sentenced to adult prisons.
This action is not consistent with the spirit and intention of the United
Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (1989) which has been
ratified by the Australian government, nor is it consistent with the
recommendations of the Kennedy report into the Review of Corrective
Services conducted in 1988.

Your petitioners therefore request the House to regulate for the change
which of which a provision exists within the Juvenile Justice Act (1992)
s 6(1) which states: the Governor in Council may, by regulation, fix a
day after which a person will be a child for the purposes of this Act if
the person has not turned 18 years.