Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

We welcome Dujuan to parliament. Under our Indigenous Advancement Strategy we are funding a range of activities to improve justice and community safety outcomes for Indigenous Australians. On 23 November 2018 the Council of Attorneys-General agreed to establish a working group to consider whether it would be appropriate to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 years of age, as is currently the case in all jurisdictions. The working group will consider Australia's minimum age of criminal responsibility, drawing from relevant jurisdictional and international experience, and will report back within 12 months. The Commonwealth is not committed to any position and will consider the report once it's finalised. We note that this is largely a matter for the states and territories, with very low historical rates for incarceration of children under the age of 14.