‘Still have their baby teeth’: Queensland children as young as 10 to face life sentences for murder under new laws

Human rights commissioner says David Crisafulli's LNP government risking state's international reputation with tough new youth crime laws

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Queensland's human rights commissioner says the state's new hardline youth crime laws - which could result in life sentences for children who still have their baby teeth" - are evidence of a society that has lost its way".

The legislation will require the third override of the state Human Rights Act in two years. All three permitted the state to imprison more children in the youth justice system.

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