Queensland to override state’s Human Rights Act in bid to make breach of bail an offence for children

Police minister Mark Ryan says the government accepts that its new laws ‘are incompatible with human rights’

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The Queensland government will override its own Human Rights Act to implement laws allowing children to be charged with criminal offences for breaching bail conditions, conceding its new laws are “incompatible” with human rights.

The police minister, Mark Ryan, said the Palaszczuk government’s strengthening community safety bill will include an amendment to the Bail Act which allows children breaching bail to be charged with the same offence as an adult.

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