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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Eden Gillespie

Queensland committee backs overriding human rights for new youth laws as striking ‘appropriate balance’

Teenager in jail or detention with hand grasping wire fence
Concerns have been raised about the disproportionate effect Queensland’s new youth crime laws would have on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Photograph: Chatiyanon/Getty Images/iStockphoto

A Queensland parliamentary committee has recommended the government’s new youth crime laws be passed, claiming provisions acknowledged as being incompatible with human rights strike an “appropriate balance”.

The government introduced a controversial suite of measures last month to crack down on youth crime, which included making breach of bail an offence for children and expanding an electronic monitoring trial for children as young as 15.

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