Un slams 'adult crime, time for adults' expansion

International human rights experts have beaten up a state and accused its government of having inflicted inappropriate damage to children when they are controversial laws with youth crime.

The government of Queensland is expected to add 20 other crimes to their pioneering laws for adults, adults, which means that children are exposed to long punishments to commit a number of crimes.

The new crimes include sexual assault and rape, trying to murder, kidnap, arson and attempted robbery.

The liberal national government quickly passed the laws that are of central importance for their 2024 election victory to ensure that children aged 10 and over 10 years of prison due to murder and homicide, while prison periods doubled due to criminal offenses such as serious bodily harm.

The decision to expand the laws occurred after several serious crimes, including a teenager who was charged with attempted murder after the alleged attack on a supermarket worker in Ipswich.

The laws “crimes for adults, time for adults” were previously beaten up by youth representatives who say that the system violates children's human rights.

However, the state government has again deserved the anger of international human rights experts who say that the laws disproportionately influence the children of Aboriginal and the children of Torres Strait Islander.

“Children harm their security and well-being as well as their educational and life prospects due to short-sighted approaches to youth crime and imprisonment,” said Alice Jill Edwards and Albert K Barume of the United Nations.

The UN has previously criticized the Queensland government because of its controversial laws.

Chairman of the UN Committee for the rights of the child, Ann Skelton, published a video before the laws were adopted in December and said it was an “obvious disregard” for the children's human rights.

Now the two UN human rights experts have written a letter to the Australian authorities in which concerns about the expansion of the laws of Queensland, time for adults, time for adults, time laws, were expressed.

They said that the changed laws would affect the life of the children of the Aboriginal and asked the members of the state parliament to vote against the bill.

“The first goal should always be to keep children away from prison,” said the experts.

“We are extremely concerned that current approaches create a future sub -class of Australians.”

The Queensland Parliament is expected to continue to discuss the changed laws that are expected late Wednesday.

It is not the only state that pursues hard youth crimes laws after Victoria has recently passed a change in the deposit laws, including the removal of the principle of custody as the last remedy for children.

In NSW, controversial youth laws, which were passed in 2024 in 2024, make it difficult for 14 to 18 year old to be released for serious charges for serious charges.

The deposit laws in the Northern Territory were strengthened after a teenager was charged after a fatal jump-off of a 71-year-old Darwin Store owner.

The UN experts said that Australia could violate its international obligations towards children with the harsh criminal laws of Queensland and the country's criminal rental, which is 10 in the Sunshine State and in the Northern Territory and 14 in other countries.