Submissions

Submissions and comments received for the review of penalties for assaults on police and other frontline emergency service workers, corrective services officers and other public officers.

Submissions listed as ‘not published’ have been withheld from publication for privacy or legal reasons.

Submission provided by

1.

Security Providers Association of Australia Limited (PDF, 128.1 KB)

2.

Queensland Health (PDF, 132.2 KB)

3.

Queensland Human Rights Commission (PDF, 543.8 KB)

4.

Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) (PDF, 300.4 KB)

5.

Joint Submission – Australasian Railway Association, Bus Industry Confederation, Rail, Tram and Bus Union, TrackSAFE Foundation (PDF, 353.2 KB)

6.

GoldlinQ Pty Ltd – Gold Coast Light Rail (PDF, 208.1 KB)

7.

Office of the Public Guardian (Queensland) (PDF, 9.1 MB)

8.

Department of Communities, Disability Services and Seniors (Queensland) (PDF, 4.8 MB)

9.

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (PDF, 1.5 MB)

10.

 Not published

11.

 Not published

12.

State Member for Morayfield, Mark Ryan, on behalf of a constituent (PDF, 646.4 KB)

13.

Queensland Teachers’ Union (PDF, 176.5 KB)
Attachment 1 – Queensland Parliament – Question on Notice No. 1013 - 13 June 2019 (PDF, 19.7 KB)
Attachment 2 – The Principal Health and Well Being Survey (PDF, 10.9 MB)
Attachment 3 – International Labour Conference (PDF, 97.2 KB)
Attachment 4 – Working Together – Understanding Student Violence in Schools (PDF, 333.1 KB)
Attachment 5 – Adjust our Settings – A community approach to address cyberbullying amongst children and young people in Queensland (PDF, 2.7 MB)
Attachment 6 – Queensland Teachers' Union of Employees – Submission to the Queensland Anti-Cyberbullying Taskforce (PDF, 396.5 KB)

14.

Together Queensland, Industrial Union of Employees (PDF, 896.3 KB)

15.

Name withheld (PDF, 85.9 KB)

16.

Mark Griffin (PDF, 90.7 KB)

17.

 Not published

18.

Queensland Nurses & Midwives' Union (PDF, 286.1 KB)

19.

Office of the Information Commissioner Queensland (PDF, 306.2 KB)

20.

 Not published

21.

Sisters Inside (PDF, 317.1 KB)

22.

Legal Aid Queensland (PDF, 252.4 KB)

23.

Queensland Police Union of Employees (PDF, 2.5 MB)

24.

Transport Workers’ Union (Queensland Branch) (PDF, 244.5 KB)

25.

 Not published

26.

Prisoners’ Legal Service (PDF, 225.8 KB)
Attachment 1 – Taskforce Flaxton submission (PDF, 386.2 KB)

27.

Department of Justice and Attorney-General (Queensland) (PDF, 2.8 MB)

28.

 Not published

29.

Bar Association of Queensland (PDF, 55.0 KB)

30.

Office of Industrial Relations, Department of Education (Queensland) (PDF, 383.9 KB)
Attachment 1 – Preventing and responding to work-related violence guideline (PDF, 376.5 KB)
Attachment 2 – Prevention and management of work-related violence and aggression in health services handbook (PDF, 1.6 MB)
Attachment 3 – Guide to working safely in people’s homes (PDF, 1.9 MB)
Attachment 4 – Client aggression and violence management self-assessment tool (PDF, 415.1 KB)
Attachment 5 – Not published
Attachment 6 – Incident notification form (PDF, 171.5 KB)
Supplementary document 1 – Work-related violence and aggression policy (PDF, 451.6 KB)
Supplementary document 2 – Work-related violence and aggression statement of principles (PDF, 717.9 KB)
Supplementary document 3 – Work-related violence and aggression prevention and management guideline (PDF, 849.7 KB)
Supplementary document 4 – Work-related violence factsheet (PDF, 134.8 KB)

31.

Queensland Corrective Services (PDF, 220.4 KB)

32.

Department of Youth Justice (Queensland) (PDF, 1.0 MB)

33.

Department of Housing and Public Works (Queensland) (PDF, 883.8 KB)
Attachment 1 – Departmental physical and verbal assault data (PDF, 212.0 KB)
Attachment 2 – Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) Guidelines (PDF, 5.5 MB)

34.

Queensland Law Society (PDF, 3.3 MB)

35.

Queensland Advocacy Incorporated (PDF, 660.9 KB)
  Submission provided by
1. Public Advocate (PDF, 114.7 KB)
2. Queensland Catholic Education Commission (PDF, 199.7 KB)
3. Not published
4. Department of Education (PDF, 5.8 MB)
5. Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women (PDF, 438.2 KB)
Cover letter (PDF, 121.4 KB)
6. Not published
7. Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (PDF, 2.6 MB)
8. Australian Lawyers Alliance (PDF, 1.1 MB)
9. Queensland Occupational Violence Strategy Unit, Queensland Health (PDF, 385.0 KB)
Cover letter (PDF, 396.5 KB)
10. Not published
11. United Workers Union (PDF, 2.3 MB)
12. Transport Workers' Union Queensland (PDF, 1.9 MB)
13. Independent Education Union (PDF, 559.6 KB)
14. Queensland Nurses and Midwives' Union (PDF, 293.6 KB)
15. Australasian Railway Association (PDF, 126.5 KB)
16. Queensland Council of Unions (PDF, 242.6 KB)
17. Sisters Inside Inc (PDF, 228.0 KB)
18. Queensland Human Rights Commission (PDF, 759.0 KB)
19. Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (PDF, 274.1 KB)
20. Queensland Teachers' Union (PDF, 1.5 MB)
21. Queensland Corrective Services (PDF, 2.2 MB)
22. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (Qld) Ltd (PDF, 402.4 KB)
23. Queensland Advocacy Incorporated (PDF, 531.6 KB)
24. Office of the Public Guardian (PDF, 745.0 KB)
25. Queensland Police Service (PDF, 499.1 KB)
26. Department of Environment and Science (PDF, 281.9 KB)
27. Bar Association of Queensland (PDF, 453.8 KB)
28. Department of Housing and Public Works (PDF, 368.6 KB)
29. Legal Aid Queensland (PDF, 199.3 KB)
Annexure A – Common law (PDF, 216.3 KB)
Annexure B – Acts of violence categories (PDF, 87.6 KB)
30. Queensland Law Society (PDF, 6.0 MB)
31. Not published
32. Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (PDF, 228.8 KB)
Last reviewed
30 July 2020
Last updated
25 January 2021