Supreme Court of Queensland
OrganisationReferenced in 18 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.
Police Powers and Responsibilities and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill expands police powers in four areas: longer monitoring of child sex offenders, new tools to investigate cybercrime, allowing civilians to assist in undercover operations, and creating offences targeting hooning gatherings and their spectators.
Associations Incorporation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019
This bill modernises the rules for Queensland's 22,660 incorporated associations and charitable organisations. It cuts red tape by allowing groups registered with the national charities regulator to avoid submitting duplicate financial reports to Queensland, introduces clearer governance standards for committee members, and updates processes that had not been reformed since 2007.
Body Corporate and Community Management and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
This bill reforms Queensland's body corporate laws in several significant ways. It creates a new process for terminating ageing or uneconomic apartment and unit schemes with 75% owner support, protecting dissenting owners with fair compensation. It restricts developers from using sunset clauses to cancel 'off the plan' contracts, and modernises everyday rules around smoking, pets and parking in strata schemes.
Revenue and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
This bill implements 2025-26 State Budget measures and makes technical amendments across multiple areas. It extends financial support for first home buyers and employers of apprentices, creates backup tax mechanisms to protect foreign property surcharge revenue, clarifies penalty enforcement rules, validates an electricity authority transfer, and reforms how parliamentary Estimates hearings are chaired.
Property Law Bill 2023
This bill replaces Queensland's 50-year-old Property Law Act with modernised legislation that makes property transactions clearer and safer. It introduces a mandatory seller disclosure scheme so buyers receive standardised information before signing contracts, supports electronic conveyancing, and protects parties when settlement is disrupted by emergencies or system failures.
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.
Trusts Bill 2024
This bill would replace Queensland's 50-year-old trusts legislation with a modernised law based on a Queensland Law Reform Commission review. It clarifies the powers and duties of trustees, makes it easier to replace trustees who die or lose capacity, and provides cheaper options for resolving trust disputes. The bill lapsed and did not become law when the 57th Parliament ended.
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.
Trusts Bill 2025
This bill replaces Queensland's 50-year-old trust law with modern legislation. It clarifies the powers and duties of trustees, makes it easier to replace trustees who die or become incapacitated, and gives beneficiaries clearer rights to see how their trust is being managed.
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.
Evidence and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021
This bill makes several changes to Queensland's evidence and court procedures. It introduces shield laws to protect journalists' confidential sources, allows domestic violence victims to use police-recorded video statements as their main evidence, creates new procedures for examining deceased persons' remains in criminal cases, and makes administrative updates to magistrate transfers and computer warrants.
Crime and Corruption and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
This bill reforms Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission following the 2022 Fitzgerald-Wilson Commission of Inquiry and parliamentary reviews. It requires the Director of Public Prosecutions to advise on corruption charges before they are laid, extends journalist shield laws to CCC proceedings, and changes how CCC Commissioners are appointed and how long they can serve.
Local Government Legislation (Validation of Rates and Charges) Amendment Bill 2018
This bill validates council rates and charges that may have been technically invalid due to a procedural issue identified by the Supreme Court. In 2017, the court ruled that Fraser Coast Regional Council's rates were invalid because the council adopted its budget without passing a specific resolution on what rates to levy. This bill retrospectively validates rates levied by all Queensland councils up to 30 June 2018.
Guardianship and Administration and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
This bill modernises Queensland's guardianship laws to better protect adults who cannot make their own decisions due to illness, disability or age. It strengthens safeguards against abuse by attorneys and administrators, aligns the system with international human rights standards, and improves accountability when things go wrong. The bill also makes separate changes to integrity advice for public servants and corruption reporting by government corporations.
Motor Accident Insurance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019
This bill tackles 'claim farming' - a growing problem where anonymous callers from local or overseas call centres contact Queenslanders after car accidents, often impersonating government agencies, to pressure them into making insurance claims. These callers then sell the victims' personal information to lawyers or claims services for a fee. The bill creates new criminal offences for this conduct and strengthens the Motor Accident Insurance Commission's powers to investigate and prosecute offenders.
Justice Legislation (Links to Terrorist Activity) Amendment Bill 2018
This bill implements a national agreement to restrict bail and parole for people with links to terrorism. It reverses the usual presumption in favour of release, requiring courts to refuse bail and parole unless 'exceptional circumstances' exist. The changes apply to adults and children who have been convicted of terrorism offences, are subject to Commonwealth control orders, or have promoted terrorism.