Hate symbols, criminalising coercive control and a victims of youth crime advisory group are part of a busy Queensland parliament sitting when MPs return.
The government is expected to introduce seven bills and debate two in the sitting that starts on Tuesday.
These include laws that increase penalties for offences motivated by hatred or serious contempt.
Queensland will ban the display of hate symbols and issue harsher penalties for criminals motivated by prejudice against specific groups under criminal code amendments.
The reforms were triggered by four key recommendations made by the Legal Affairs and Safety Committee in January 2022 and make it an offence for a person to publish hate symbols that cause a member of the public to feel menaced, harassed or offended, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
They provide a new circumstance of aggravation for offences, including common assault, going armed so as to cause fear, threatening violence, assault occasioning bodily harm, wilful damage, trespass and public nuisance.
Criminals who commit these offences through hatred or serious contempt based on race, religion, sexuality, sex characteristics or gender identity face longer sentences.
It is expected the bill will pass by the end of the week.
In other business, the government will introduce a bill to make coercive control a standalone offence following previous reforms.
It seeks to broaden the definition of domestic and family violence to include behaviour that occurs over time, modernise and strengthen the offence of unlawful stalking and give courts more discretion in awarding costs and issuing domestic violence protection orders.
The government will also establish a bipartisan parliament youth advisory committee to be chaired by independent member Sandy Bolton as part of the victims of crime amendments.
Former premier Mike Ahern will be recognised with a condolence motion on Thursday.
