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3 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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In short:
The amount of people being barred from working with children in Queensland has nearly doubled in the last financial year.
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amount → bar → year
Alongside that, more than 1.4 million people are currently monitored through the blue card system.
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people → monitor → system
The Department of Justice says these figures are a sign of a strong system.
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Thousands more people are being barred from working with children in Queensland, according to reporting from the state government.
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people → bar → government
Annual reporting from Queensland's Department of Justice showed in the last financial year, 6,403 people were denied working with children checks under Queensland's blue card system.
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people → show → system
It's nearly double the amount previously refused, with 3,712 people prevented from holding the passes in the 2024-2025 financial year.
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people → refuse → year
A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said it was the sign of a strong system.
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it → say → system
"Queensland has one of Australia's strongest working with children screening systems, with robust safeguards in place to protect children and young people," they said.
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Increased refusals don't mean safer kids, academics warn
Twenty-five years since it was introduced, more than 1.4 million people are monitored through the blue card system, a figure up by about 100,000 people more than last year.
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The government expanded the scope of roles requiring blue cards in December, following a landmark report into failings in the child safety sector.
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The report, prompted by the serial offending of paedophile, Ashley Paul Griffith, found the blue card system had functioned as intended but offered no meaningful protection to children.
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University of Queensland law professor Tamara Walsh said a higher number of blue card refusals did not mean a more protective system.
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number → say → system
"A lot of discretion is given to decision makers when they're deciding whether to give someone a blue card or not," she said.
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Professor Walsh said someone charged with drug possession when they were young could be prevented from working in the youth justice space in the future, for example.
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"We're actually preventing people from getting blue cards who we would want to have blue cards, so the system is not being strengthened in the ways in which we'd all hope.
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we → prevent → which
"What we're doing is capturing a whole lot of people who don't pose a protective risk to children and we're missing people who do.
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who → do → people
The department had a 98 per cent clearance rate at the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal last year, despite a 25 per cent increase in lodgements, the government report said.
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report → have → lodgements
Further changes on the way
In August, Queensland's Attorney-General and Justice Minister Deb Frecklington introduced legislation for a new Child Protection Commission.
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Frecklington → introduce → Commission
The centralised commission would coordinate agencies and departments — including blue card services — to share intelligence and investigate concerning behaviour that may not meet the threshold for police investigation.
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Queensland Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Integrity Deb Frecklington said the system was making kids safer.
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kids → say → Justice
"The safety of children remains the paramount consideration in Queensland's Blue Card system," she said.
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The Crisafulli Government will continue to support a framework that is both rigorous and fair."
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