Bail Further Amendment Bill 2025
Introduction and first reading
Sonya KILKENNY (Carrum – Attorney-General, Minister for Planning) (15:31): I move:
That I introduce a bill for an act to amend the Bail Act 1977 and the Summary Offences Act 1966 and for other purposes.
Motion agreed to.
Michael O’BRIEN (Malvern) (15:32): I ask the Attorney-General to provide a brief explanation of the bill.
Sonya KILKENNY (Carrum – Attorney-General, Minister for Planning) (15:32): This bill builds on the government’s tough bail reforms earlier this year to introduce the toughest bail test in the country, to make it very hard for people who allegedly commit violent offences while on bail to get bail again and to ensure those who allegedly commit indictable offences while on bail are subject to a tougher bail test where they must prove compelling reasons to justify bail to ensure respect for the rules. This new rule will be subject to carve outs to ensure those charged with some low-harm, non-violent offending are not remanded unnecessarily.
Read first time.
Ordered to be read second time tomorrow.