Premier David Crisafulli promises crime expert panel will be ready by resumption of Parliament

David Crisafulli has doubled down on his promise an expert panel on Adult Crime, Adult Time laws will start work soon, despite senior legal figures and police officers abandoning the government.

Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie and Premier David Crisafulli spruik their 100 days of results at William street on Sunday. Picture Lachie Millard

Premier David Crisafulli has doubled down on his promise that an expert panel on Adult Crime Adult Time laws will start work soon, vowing that it would be in place by the time Parliament resumes.

The panel, responsible for advising the government on offences to include in the second tranche of the laws, needs to be appointed by February 18.

It requires at least three members with legal qualifications but several top legal experts and former high-ranking police officers have turned down personal offers from the government.

Mr Crisafulli said the changes to youth crime law changes made so far were just the “first tranche” in what would be “many tranches’’.

He slapped down criticism that he had put the cart before the horse by cracking down on lax laws passed by the former Labor government, potentially overcrowding watch juvenile detention centres.

Mr Crisafulli conceded watch houses were “not conducive’’ to the changes needed for young offenders to turn their lives around and he did not want to see them languishing in watch houses for long periods.

Premier David Crisafulli conceded watch houses were “not conducive’’ to the changes needed for young offenders. Picture Lachie Millard

But his government had already begun alternative approaches to detention as part of its raft of election promises.

Mr Crisafulli said that since Cabinet was sworn-in, the government had passed the Making Queensland Safer Laws, which included introducing Adult Crime, Adult Time, removing detention as a last resort and putting victims’ rights before offenders.

Police resources had also been boosted.

He and Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie spruiked their 100-day plan on Sunday, saying all 43 commitments had begun or been ticked off by that deadline, as promised.

But Labor Deputy Leader Cameron Dick said some of those changes were minor procedural matters and that the LNP had promised immediate action on youth crime.

Premier David Crisafulli and Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie spruik their 100 days of results at William street on Sunday. Picture Lachie Millard

Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie said Queenslanders rejected Labor at the last election because they had lost control of the issues that mattered.

“In just 100 Day as a Government, we have delivered more action to tackle youth crime, restore frontline health services and ease cost of living than Labor did in the last decade,” he said.

Mr Crisafulli said: “Our 100 Day Plan set the foundations and we will continue to deliver more for Queenslanders every single day.’’

Other actions taken in the first 100 days included: the launch of real-time hospital data; implementing an Energy Maintenance Guarantee; scrapping Labor’s $37 billion Pioneer-Burdekin hydro scheme; abolishing stamp duty on new homes; scrapping the BPIC pay deal with the CFMEU.

Originally published as Premier David Crisafulli promises crime expert panel will be ready by resumption of Parliament