Judicial Review Act 1991
LegislationReferenced in 21 bills
Human Rights Bill 2018
This bill creates Queensland's first Human Rights Act, establishing statutory protections for 23 fundamental rights including the right to life, liberty, privacy, freedom of expression, and fair treatment. It requires government agencies to act compatibly with human rights and creates a complaint mechanism through the Queensland Human Rights Commission.
Corrective Services (Parole Board) Amendment Bill 2025
This bill closes a gap in parole oversight by requiring the full Parole Board to review all urgent decisions made by individual board members about suspending a prisoner's parole. Previously, only decisions to suspend parole were reviewed by the full Board - decisions not to suspend could go unchecked.
Electrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
This bill makes two sets of changes. First, it strengthens Queensland's electrical safety framework by confirming electricity distributors can issue defect notices and by giving the regulator clearer powers to ban unsafe electrical equipment. Second, it removes an uncommenced provision that would have given workplace safety representatives a new way to request information from the regulator.
Community Protection and Public Child Sex Offender Register (Daniel’s Law) Bill 2025
This bill establishes a three-tiered public child sex offender register, named Daniel's Law after Daniel Morcombe. It allows police to publish details of missing offenders, lets residents view photos of high-risk offenders in their area, and enables parents to check if someone with unsupervised access to their child is a registered offender.
Racing Integrity Amendment Bill 2022
This bill reforms how decisions by racing stewards are reviewed in Queensland. It creates a new independent Racing Appeals Panel to hear appeals faster than the current system, limits further appeals to serious cases only, and authorises publication of stewards' reports online to improve transparency.
Community Based Sentences (Interstate Transfer) Bill 2019
This bill allows adults serving community-based sentences in Queensland to have their sentences formally transferred to another state or territory when they move interstate. It replaces informal arrangements with a proper legal framework that ensures offenders can be supervised and held accountable wherever they live in Australia.
Local Government (Dissolution of Ipswich City Council) Bill 2018
This bill dissolved Ipswich City Council and removed all councillors from office following a Crime and Corruption Commission investigation that found serious corruption and governance failures. An interim administrator was appointed to run the council until residents could elect new councillors at the 2020 local government elections.
Economic Development and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
This bill reforms Economic Development Queensland (EDQ) to help address Queensland's housing supply shortage. It gives EDQ expanded powers to deliver social and affordable housing, creates new 'Place Renewal Areas' for coordinated urban renewal, grants compulsory land acquisition powers, and restructures EDQ as an independent statutory body with its own board and CEO.
Crime and Corruption (Restoring Reporting Powers) Amendment Bill 2025
This bill restores the Crime and Corruption Commission's power to publicly report on corruption matters, after a 2023 High Court decision found this power was never properly authorised by law. It creates new safeguards to protect individuals who may be named in reports, while ensuring the CCC can continue its vital role exposing public sector corruption.
Royalty Legislation Amendment Bill 2020
This bill changes how Queensland calculates petroleum royalties and modernises royalty administration for both petroleum and minerals. From 1 October 2020, petroleum royalty is based on production volume rather than the previous complex 'wellhead value' method, providing greater certainty for the coal seam gas and LNG industry.
Mineral and Energy Resources (Financial Provisioning) Bill 2018
This bill creates a new financial provisioning scheme to protect Queensland from the cost of mine rehabilitation when companies fail to meet their obligations. It replaces the previous individual financial assurance system with a pooled fund where companies pay contributions based on their assessed risk level, and requires all major mines to have Progressive Rehabilitation and Closure Plans with enforceable milestones.
Local Government (Councillor Complaints) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
This bill overhauls the system for handling complaints about councillor conduct in Queensland. It creates an Independent Assessor to investigate complaints, replacing the previous system where council CEOs had conflicts of interest in assessing complaints against their own councillors. A new Councillor Conduct Tribunal will hear serious misconduct matters, with appeal rights to QCAT.
Public Sector Bill 2022
This bill replaces the Public Service Act 2008 with a modernised framework for Queensland's entire public sector. It implements recommendations from the Bridgman Review and Coaldrake Report to strengthen employment security, promote equity and diversity, support the government's relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and improve public sector governance.
Revenue Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
This bill implements 2023-24 State Budget revenue measures affecting land tax, stamp duty, and payroll tax. It creates major tax concessions for build-to-rent housing developments that include affordable housing, extends payroll tax relief for regional employers and apprentice wages, and simplifies land tax administration for homeowners.
Nature Conservation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
This bill validates the use of electronic systems for automatically issuing routine environmental and wildlife permits. It confirms that permits automatically issued since 2017 are legally valid and ensures environmental enforcement tools remain effective after recent legislative changes.
Coal Mining Safety and Health and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill makes practical adjustments to coal mining safety employment rules and supports Queensland's critical minerals sector. It allows coal mining companies more flexibility in staffing safety-critical positions while maintaining the core protections for workers, and introduces rent deferrals for new critical minerals mining leases.
Environmental Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill modernises Queensland's environmental protection laws by streamlining approval processes, strengthening compliance powers, and better protecting the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. It introduces temporary environmental authorities for emergency situations and bans mining in the Wet Tropics.
Crime and Corruption (Reporting) Amendment Bill 2024
This bill gives the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) clear legal power to publicly report on corruption investigations and make public statements. It responds to a 2023 High Court decision that found the CCC had been publishing reports without proper legal authority. The bill implements recommendations from an independent review to balance government transparency with protections for individuals who are investigated.
Planning (Social Impact and Community Benefit) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
This bill introduces a community benefit system requiring developers of major projects to conduct social impact assessments and negotiate community benefit agreements with local governments before lodging development applications. It also streamlines governance and removes planning approval requirements for Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games venues to ensure they are delivered on time.
Queensland Community Safety Bill 2024
This bill implements a comprehensive package of community safety measures. It expands police powers to search for knives in shopping centres and on public transport, creates new firearm prohibition orders for high-risk individuals, increases penalties for dangerous driving and attacks on emergency workers, allows police to issue on-the-spot fines for low-range drink driving, and reforms youth justice detention transfers.
Local Government Electoral (Implementing Stage 2 of Belcarra) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019
This bill implements the second stage of reforms following the Crime and Corruption Commission's Operation Belcarra investigation into local government corruption. It strengthens electoral donation disclosure, introduces mandatory candidate training, tightens conflict of interest rules, and applies the same accountability framework to Brisbane City Council that applies to all other Queensland councils.