Department of Youth Justice and Victim Support
OrganisationReferenced in 5 bills
Appropriation (Supplementary 2024-2025) Bill 2025
This bill formally approves $5.741 billion in government spending that exceeded the original 2024-25 budget across 16 departments. The money has already been spent and reviewed by the Auditor-General, and Parliament must now formally authorise it as required by the Queensland Constitution.
Making Queensland Safer Bill 2024
This bill implements the government's 'adult crime, adult time' policy, allowing children convicted of serious offences like murder, robbery, burglary and dangerous driving to receive the same penalties as adults. It also removes the principle of detention as a last resort, makes victim impact the primary consideration in sentencing young offenders, and creates an automatic process to transfer 18-year-olds from youth detention to adult prisons.
Youth Justice (Circuit Breaker) Amendment Bill 2026
This bill sets up a new 'Circuit Breaker' program for young people who are charged with or convicted of crimes in Queensland. Courts will be able to order a child to live at a strictly supervised residential site in a remote or rural area, run by a non-government provider, either as a condition of bail or as a sentence of between 3 and 6 months. The program focuses on rehabilitation, education and reintegration and is described as the 'last stop before detention'.
Appropriation Bill 2026
This bill is the Queensland Government's main annual budget law for 2026-27. It authorises the Treasurer to spend $104.658 billion from the state's consolidated fund to run government departments, and provides a further $52.329 billion in interim funding to keep government operating in the first part of 2027-28 until next year's budget passes.
Youth Justice (Monitoring Devices) Amendment Bill 2025
This bill extends Queensland's trial of electronic monitoring devices for children on bail by one year, to 30 April 2026. The trial allows courts to order children aged 15 and over who are charged with serious offences and have a history of offending to wear a monitoring device as a condition of bail. The extension gives the government time to properly evaluate whether the devices are effective before deciding the trial's future.