Queensland parliament live: Inquiry’s report into child safety released

Fresh from tabling the almost 1400-page child safety inquiry report in parliament, Attorney-General Deb Frecklington has held a brief media conference outside the legislative assembly.

Frecklington spoke to only one of the report’s 52 recommendations, committing to immediately set up a new cabinet subcommittee so the government can consider the recommendations as a whole.

Previously, she’d said the inquiry’s deadline had been brought forward from its original November deadline so that its calls could be fed into the budget process. Today, she suggested the government would take two months to consider its approach.

The state budget will be handed down in three weeks, on June 23. The report, stemming from an inquiry the LNP promised it would hold if elected, was handed to the government last Friday.

“There are serious reforms that would see quite significant changes across several departments,” Frecklington said. “So, it is important that we give it the due respect … that is required.”

Both Frecklington and Child Safety Minister Amanda Camm noted the size of the report and time needed to consider it, but said it showed serious failures of the former Labor government.

Reporters were given only minutes to look at the report before Frecklington and Camm’s brief media conference before their return to parliament for question time, but both committed to taking questions on Thursday.