Tuesday, 2 December 2025

 Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:54): (2027) My question is to the Attorney-General, and I ask: in light of the shocking incident on 27 November at Brentwood Park Primary School in Berwick, where an 11-year-old armed with a kitchen knife and imitation firearm stormed a grade 1 classroom, injuring a child and a teacher, will the government reconsider its 2024 decision to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 12? This was no playground scuffle; it was a deliberate, premeditated attack. Yet under Labor’s changes the courts are powerless to act, leaving both the victim and the offender as casualties of flawed legislation.