When the state’s first independent victims’ commissioner spoke out, the LNP’s next move was calculated and brutal. Community groups now fear for their funding
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Queensland’s first independent victims’ commissioner, Beck O’Connor, found herself in the crosshairs of a new Liberal National party government that had staked its future on a promise to serve the interests of victims of crime. In the government’s first nine months, O’Connor made a few mild and reasoned criticisms of its hardline crime plans.
On the signature “adult crime, adult time” measure she said advancing victims’ rights “should not be to the detriment of universal human rights”. She then called plans to allow police to issue year-long domestic violence orders “an experiment with unintended but not unforeseen harmful consequences to our community”.