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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Andrew Messenger

List: all 14 last-minute amendments rushed through by the Queensland government without scrutiny

Queensland minister for police Mark Ryan
Queensland minister for police Mark Ryan announced 57 pages of amendments to the bill with minutes’ notice. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

Originally introduced in October last year, Queensland’s child protection (offender reporting and offender prohibition order) and other legislation amendment bill started life as an extremely routine housekeeping law.

The bill updated a range of rules for people convicted of sexual offences, and modernised the child protection registry scheme, among other changes. Probably its most interesting element was to allow police to enter the home of more convicted offenders without a warrant to inspect their electronic devices, retrospectively.

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