Australian governments accused of hiding evidence supporting lift in age of criminal responsibility

Raise the Age campaign says scores of submissions by legal, health and youth experts have been concealed and ignored

Federal and state governments have been accused of suppressing large volumes of expert evidence that supports raising the age of criminal responsibility, and sitting on a crucial report because they lack the political will to act".

In 2018, the council of attorneys general (Cag) began investigating potential reforms to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14, and received roughly 93 submissions from youth, medical and legal organisations - most of which are thought to have been supportive of reform.