The NSW Opposition is pushing for strong and immediate legislative reform to stop repeat serious youth offenders from carrying out crime sprees across regional NSW.
Shadow Attorney General Alister Henskens will introduce the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Youth Crime) Bill 2025 in Parliament after in-depth collaboration between the Liberals and Nationals.
It will offer stronger measures than Labor\u2019s changes to the Bail Act that were passed last week, by:
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NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman said the Opposition bill builds on the Coalition\u2019s efforts to strengthen Labor\u2019s bill after the Minns Government refused to support any amendments.
\u201cChris Minns has been all talk but little action on youth crime \u2014 and regional communities are paying the price,\u201d Mr Speakman said.
\u201cThis Coalition response draws on the work of Dugald Saunders, who has been listening carefully and regularly to our communities, and the direct advocacy of Opposition regional MPs. We now have a united position on how to achieve tangible change.\u201d
NSW Nationals Leader Dugald Saunders said this will provide swift and decisive action while leaving the door open to more reforms.
\u201cOur residents are living in a constant state of panic and fear, as their homes are broken into, cars are stolen – and even worse, loved ones are hurt,\u201d Mr Saunders said.
\u201cWe need an immediate circuit-breaker to stop repeat youth offenders from holding our communities to ransom and we will continue discussions with the Shadow Attorney General around potential changes to doli incapax along with diversionary programs.\u201d
Shadow Attorney General Alister Henskens said he will continue working with regional MPs on further measures, but these initial changes can\u2019t wait.
\u201cThe Coalition wants to demonstrate clearly to the community that it understands the anxiety that is being felt and the need to enhance community safety,\u201d Mr Henskens said.
\u201cElectronic monitoring for repeat serious criminal offenders will assist in deterring crime while these offenders are on bail, while mandatory curfews bolstered by this monitoring will help keep these repeat offenders off the streets and to stop them committing crimes until their matters are heard in court.\u201d
Member for the Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan said the Opposition bill builds on his initial private member\u2019s bill.
\u201cThis crisis is the number one thing people in the regions are talking about right now and it\u2019s becoming worse and worse by the day,\u201d Mr Moylan said.
\u201cOur team of Nationals MPs have been fighting to make their communities safe again, and we have been working hard as a Coalition to come up with changes that can actually deliver that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The NSW Opposition is pushing for strong and immediate legislative reform to stop repeat serious youth offenders from carrying out crime sprees across regional NSW. Shadow Attorney General Alister Henskens will introduce the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Youth Crime) Bill 2025 in Parliament after in-depth collaboration between the Liberals and Nationals. It will offer stronger measures than Labor\u2019s … Continue reading “Reform for real action on regional youth crime”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32059,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32058\/revisions\/32059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}