CRIMINAL LAW – VICTORIA

Raising the age of criminal responsibility set for 2025 as Victorian government unveils mammoth youth justice bill

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Original article by Kieran Rooney, Rachel Eddie
The Age – Page: Online : 19-Jun-24

The Victorian government’s proposed changes to youth justice laws will include a two-year trial of electronic monitoring and codifying the existing legal presumption of doli incapax. The government still intends to increase the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12, although it has conceded that this may be delayed until 2025; Youth Justice Minister Enver Erdogan says this will ultimately be raised to 14, although Monique Hurley from the Human Rights Law Centre says the government should do so immediately. The 1,000-page youth justice bill was introduced to parliament on Tuesday, and the government will need the support of crossbenchers in the upper house to ensure its passage.

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VICTORIA. DEPT OF JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY SAFETY, HUMAN RIGHTS LAW CENTRE LIMITED

Victoria to change Crimes Act on HIV

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Original article by Julia Medew
The Age – Page: 10 : 21-Jul-14

Victorian Health Minister David Davis has foreshadowed the repeal of section 19A of the Crimes Act 1958, which currently makes it an offence to knowingly transmit the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The announcement at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne on 20 July 2014 was applauded by anti-HIV discrimination campaigner and ex-High Court judge Michael Kirby. Victoria is the only Australian state to have such a law

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VICTORIA. DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES, HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA, GLOBAL COMMISSION ON HIV AND THE LAW

Tougher penalties for attacks on police

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Original article by Jane Lee, Richard Willingham, Nino Bucci
The Age – Page: 2 : 26-Jun-14

Victorian Premier Denis Napthine has announced a tightening of laws protecting emergency service workers. Under the changes first foreshadowed in 2010, a minimum prison sentence of three years will be imposed on those who attack police officers, paramedics, firefighters, protective services officers, State Emergency Services workers, on-duty lifesavers or hospital emergency department staff. Attorney-General Robert Clark notes that the number of such assaults is rising due to drug and alcohol abuse, with close to 2,500 reported cases in 2012-13

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VICTORIA. OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, VICTORIA. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET, VICTORIA. STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE, THE POLICE ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA, AMBULANCE VICTORIA FIRST AID, AMBULANCE EMPLOYEES AUSTRALIA