New Court Powers to Issue Serious Domestic Abuse Prevention Orders (SDAPO)
Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
Legislative Assembly
Legislative Council
Assent
Introduced by: Michael Daley MP (ALP); The Hon Daniel Mookhey MLC (ALP)
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Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
The Debate
What different members said when this bill was debated:
Susan Carter LIB
“I contribute to debate on the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 on behalf of the Coalition. I indicate at the outset that the Coalition will be supporting the bill. Domestic violence is such an important issue in our society that any sensible measures to engage with it should receive bipartisan support.”
Abigail Boyd GRN
“I indicate that The Greens support the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024. I am going to say something that I say very rarely in this place: This is a good bill.”
Stephen Lawrence ALP
“I speak in support of the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024. Other members have summarised the various operative parts of the bill. I will address what to my mind are the two main parts of the bill, being the new offences for breaching apprehended domestic violence orders [ADVO] and the new civil order scheme.”
Aileen MacDonald LIB
“I support the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024. Any effort to strengthen protections for victim-survivors of domestic and family violence is worthy of support, but I make clear that, while I support the bill, I cannot ignore the Government’s repeated failure to deliver on its promise to those very victim-survivors.”
Rachel Merton LIB
“I speak in support of the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024. There is no doubt that the protection of individuals from domestic and personal violence must be a paramount concern of the Parliament. Indeed, protecting women in all ways should be a priority of us as legislators.”
Daniel Mookhey ALP
“Susan Carter, Ms Abigail Boyd, the Hon. Stephen Lawrence, the Hon. Aileen MacDonald and the Hon. Rachel Merton. The Government was as astonished to hear Ms Abigail Boyd’s praise as I am sure she was to give it. I turn to some of the matters that have been raised during debate on the bill.”
News articles and press releases
Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
Mr MICHAEL DALEY, Attorney General — 2024-09-17
First, this bill introduces laws and additional tools for our criminal justice agencies to target and respond to high-risk domestic and family violence offenders. These reforms include two new aggravated offences, which will enable higher penalties to be imposed when a person breaches an apprehended domestic violence order with the intent to cause harm or fear, or when a person persistently breaches an ADVO. The reforms include a new civil protection order scheme for serious domestic abuse prevention orders, which are modelled on the serious crime prevention orders that are currently available to respond to serious and organised crime. The reforms include amendments to the definition of stalking to better capture technology-facilitated tracking or monitoring conduct, such as the use of GPS trackers or monitoring a victim’s online accounts.