Delivering Daniel’s Law To Protect Queensland Children
- Crisafulli Government has introduced landmark Daniel’s Law to Queensland Parliament, delivering the State’s first public child sex offender register.
- Three-tiered disclosure scheme outlines how Queenslanders will access the information they need to protect their children.
- Three new offences will help protect against misuse of information or vigilantism.
- Crisafulli Government is delivering to make Queensland safer in its first 10 months, after 10 years of decline under Labor.
The Crisafulli Government is restoring safety where you live and delivering on its key election promise to establish a public child sex offender register, with legislation introduced to Parliament today.
Daniel’s Law will establish the Community Protection and Child Sex Offender Public Register in Queensland, allowing parents to access to information to better protect their children.
The Bill will be referred to a Parliamentary Committee for review before coming back to the Parliament, with the Government to deliver on its promise for Daniel’s Law to be law before the end of the year.
The Public Register is the next phase of the Making Queensland Safer Laws and modelled closely on the proven West Australian system established in 2012, creating a three-tiered disclosure framework:
- Tier 1: a publicly available website for reportable offenders who have failed to comply with their obligations and their whereabouts is unknown to police. The offenders full name, photograph and year of birth will be accessible by members of the public, but they must agree not to misuse the information.
- Tier 2: online application for Queensland residents to view photographs of reportable offenders living in their local area.
- Tier 3: online application for parents and guardians to confirm whether a particular person who has had, or will have, unsupervised contact with their child, is a reportable offender.
A reportable offence is defined in the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004 and includes offences like grooming of a child under 16, indecent treatment of a child, making or distributing child exploitation material.
Daniel’s Law is named in honour of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe, whose life was tragically taken in 2003. Daniel’s Law follows two decades of advocacy from his parents, and through the Daniel Morcombe Foundation.
The Bill will be supported by the introduction of three new offences prohibiting the misuse of information.
The Crisafulli Government is delivering the strongest child protection system in the nation, which includes a fast-tracked reportable conduct scheme which has been brought forward to start in July in 2026, the Blue Card Protection Review and the launch of a Child Safety Commission of Inquiry.
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