- The Crisafulli Government is delivering stronger protections for victims to make Queensland safer, and hold repeat domestic and family violence offenders to account.
- The reforms increase the maximum penalty for breaching a Police Protection Direction and enable statewide expansions of the Electronic Monitoring Pilot.
- The Crisafulli Government is restoring safety where you live through stronger laws and investing in programs that put victim-survivors first, after a decade of decline under Labor.
The Crisafulli Government is making Queensland safer after introducing nation-leading legislation to Parliament, to protect more victims of domestic and family violence sooner and hold perpetrators to account.
The Domestic and Family Violence Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2026 enables police to respond to more victims sooner and will expand the electronic monitoring pilot for high-risk perpetrators statewide.
The Bill introduces major reforms, including:
- Establishing new offences for the repeated contravention of a Police Protection Direction (PPD) or Domestic Violence Order (DVO).
- Enabling the statewide expansion of the Electronic Monitoring Pilot and introducing a requirement for courts to consider a monitoring device condition as part of a DVO, whether further protection is necessary.
- Increasing the maximum penalty for contravention of a PPD to five years in circumstances of aggravation.
- Increasing the duration of a PPD from 12 months to three years.
- Expanding the conditions available to police to impose a PPD.
- Enhancing protections for victims in civil court proceedings by closing a loophole that previously allowed victims to be cross-examined by their perpetrator.
Under the reforms, a person who breaches a Domestic Violence Order or Police Protection Direction on at least three occasions within a 28-day period can face up to five years imprisonment.
The reforms build on the Crisafulli Government's broader domestic and family violence reform agenda and support the delivery of commitments under Safer Families, Safer Communities: A Domestic and Family Violence Reform Strategy for Queensland.
Unlike the former Labor Government which oversaw victims' calls for support left unanswered by DV Connect, the Crisafulli Government will continue listening to the experience of frontline officers to ensure they have the laws, resources and support they need to protect more victims sooner and hold perpetrators to account.
Acting Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence Ann Leahy said the Crisafulli Government was restoring safety where you live and protecting more victims sooner with nation-leading domestic and family violence reforms.
"Not only will our electronic monitoring pilot for high-risk perpetrators be expanded statewide, police will be able to use Police Protection Directions to protect more victims sooner from domestic and family violence," Minister Leahy said.
"We've listened to victims who told us repeat perpetrators weren't being held to account, and we've expanded electronic monitoring and introduced new offences to target them and protect victims.
"These nation-leading laws mean police can issue on-the-spot, legally binding directions for immediate protection, without waiting for an initial court hearing - that's support for more victims, more quickly.
"For too long under Labor, calls for help from victims of domestic and family violence were left unanswered, these stronger laws are the answers needed."
Minister for Police and Emergency Services Dan Purdie said the new offence for the repeated contravention of a Police Protection Direction or Domestic Violence Order would protect more victims sooner.
"The Crisafulli Government has prioritised domestic and family violence reform with nation-leading legislation that protects more victims sooner and holds perpetrators to account after a decade of inaction under Labor," Minister Purdie said.
"We are making Queensland safer and delivering important change to address this scourge on society which festered under Labor - the same Government which sat on hundreds of reform recommendations and failed women and children in crisis."
