Hon Deb Frecklington MP

This bill would have created criminal offences for Queensland Cabinet ministers who fail to declare conflicts of interest. It was a private member's bill introduced by then-Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington following a Crime and Corruption Commission investigation into allegations about the Deputy Premier. The bill lapsed at the end of the 56th Parliament and did not become law.

This bill reforms how courts sentence sexual offenders in Queensland and creates a new offence for impersonating government agencies. It implements four recommendations from the Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council to better recognise victim harm, restrict the use of 'good character' defences, and protect child victims aged 16-17.

This bill restores the Crime and Corruption Commission's power to publicly report on corruption investigations and make public statements about corruption matters. The High Court ruled in 2023 that the CCC had never actually held this power, invalidating past reports. The bill creates new reporting powers with safeguards, enhances procedural fairness for people named in reports, and retrospectively validates all past CCC corruption reports.

This bill replaces Queensland's Trusts Act 1973 with modernised legislation that 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. It broadly implements recommendations from the Queensland Law Reform Commission's comprehensive 2012-2013 review of trust law.

This bill modernises Queensland's defamation laws to address the realities of online publishing. It implements nationally agreed reforms that create clearer rules for when online platforms, search engines, internet service providers, and forum administrators can be held liable for defamatory content posted by their users. It also makes it safer to report matters to police by extending absolute privilege to those reports.

This bill creates a dedicated Mining and Resources Coroner to investigate all accidental deaths at Queensland's coal mines, mines, quarries, and petroleum and gas sites. Every mining-related death will now require a mandatory public inquest to determine what happened and make recommendations to prevent similar fatalities. It delivers on a Queensland Government election commitment to re-establish oversight of fatal accidents on mine and quarry sites.

This bill makes wide-ranging changes to Queensland's electoral laws. It removes the ban on property developer donations for State elections, restructures donation caps to reset each financial year, tightens prisoner voting restrictions, removes Electoral Commission oversight of party preselection ballots, allows banks to lend to political campaigns, and requires election material to carry authorisation details for 12 months before a general election.

This bill changes Queensland's electoral laws across six areas: it restricts more prisoners from voting, removes the ban on property developer donations for State elections, resets donation caps to apply each financial year instead of each parliamentary term, allows bank loans to fund State election campaigns, removes Electoral Commission oversight of party preselection ballots, and extends the period during which election material must carry authorisation details.