Safer Streets Crime Action Plan
Program / SchemeReferenced in 2 bills
Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016
This bill undoes tougher youth justice laws from 2012 and 2014 and returns to a more rehabilitative approach. It closes youth justice proceedings to the public (but lets victims attend), raises the age for transfer to adult prison from 17 to 18, and brings back court-referred restorative justice conferencing as a way to divert young offenders from the formal court system.
21/4/2016· PASSED with amendment· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Justice & RightsChildren & FamiliesFirst Nations
Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015
This bill rolls back a package of tough-on-youth-crime laws introduced in 2013 and 2014. It abolishes youth boot camps, ends the offence of breaching bail for children, restores a ban on naming children in the media, and reinstates the principle that detention or imprisonment should only be used as a last resort.
1/12/2015· PASSED with amendment· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Justice & RightsChildren & Families