Technology & Digital

This bill modernises the Queensland Building and Construction Commission by removing the requirement for physical licence cards and enabling digital alternatives. It also streamlines workplace safety reporting so that building industry licensees only need to notify one regulator of safety incidents, rather than reporting the same incident to both the QBCC and workplace safety regulators.

This bill updates Queensland's spatial positioning framework to the national GDA2020 standard, ensuring maps stay accurate as Australia drifts north-east. It also creates easier pathways for Traditional Owners to receive land under Indigenous Land Use Agreements and streamlines state land lease renewals.

This bill creates new criminal offences for sharing intimate images without consent, commonly known as 'revenge porn'. It criminalises both the actual distribution of intimate images and threats to distribute such images, with penalties of up to 3 years imprisonment. Courts can also order offenders to remove or delete the images.

This bill introduces the Digital Licence App allowing Queenslanders to carry driver licences and photo ID on their smartphones, and extends automated camera enforcement to catch drivers using mobile phones and not wearing seatbelts. It also makes various technical improvements to transport legislation.

This bill enables Queensland to participate in a national facial recognition system that shares driver licence photos between Australian governments to combat identity fraud and terrorism. It also increases penalties for explosives offences and provided temporary extended liquor trading for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

This bill modernises Queensland's defamation laws for the digital age by implementing nationally agreed reforms. It creates clearer rules for when online platforms, search engines, and forum administrators can be held liable for defamatory content posted by users, and extends protection to people who report matters to police.

This bill implements the Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce's recommendations to combat coercive control in domestic and family violence situations. It modernises stalking laws to cover technology-facilitated abuse, requires courts to identify the person most in need of protection in disputed cases, and improves how evidence of domestic violence patterns is recognised in criminal proceedings.

This bill replaces Queensland's 20-year-old public records law to bring it into the digital age. It modernises how government records are defined, managed, and accessed, while formally recognising the importance of public records for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and creating new advisory bodies to ensure their interests are considered.

This bill strengthens how Queensland government agencies protect and handle personal information. It requires agencies to notify people when data breaches occur, creates consistent privacy principles across government, and gives the Information Commissioner stronger powers to investigate privacy issues. It also streamlines how people can access and correct their personal information held by government.