‘Recipe for disaster’: Queensland bail law that overrides children’s human rights won’t work, experts say

Legal groups also criticise the push to override the state’s Human Rights Act to create the offence

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Experts say there is zero evidence to support Annastacia Palaszczuk’s controversial decision to pursue criminal charges against Queensland children who breach bail.

Human rights organisations have also delivered scathing criticisms of the government’s bid to override the state’s Human Rights Act to legislate the offence for children, warning that it likely won’t reduce offending.

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