Queensland is creating a public child sex offender register. Will it keep people safer?
- Written by Rick Sarre, Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
The Queensland government will this week table legislation creating Australia’s first public child sex offender register.
The Queensland legislation, to be known as Daniel’s Law, was named in honour of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe, who was abducted and murdered by a sex offender more than two decades ago.
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