Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has promised to increase the minimum sentence for paedophilia if he becomes Queensland’s premier at the next election. 

The state government yesterday announced new legislation it claimed would be the toughest on paedophiles in the country.

Police monitoring periods will be doubled to keep convicted paedophiles on watch lists for 10 years and repeat offenders for 20.

While the LNP supported the law, Mr Crisafulli told Ray Hadley the Premier’s claim that it’s the “toughest in the country” is “nonsense”.

“If these people are so bad that they need to be monitored for the rest of their lives, isn’t the question: why aren’t they in the pen longer?” he said.

“If they’re such a risk, if they are such bad people, why allow them back out onto the streets in such a short period of time?”

Mr Crisafulli said the sentencing for child sex offenders falls short of community expectation.

Ray Hadley: “If you are to be the Premier at the next term, will you in some way revise the laws, so that we don’t have to worry about monitoring them as much as we do now because they’ll be, as you so eloquently put it, ‘in the pen’ for much longer?”

David Crisafulli: “Let me make this commitment to you, and you and your listeners can hold me accountable: the answer is absolutely and categorically yes.

“The Premier wants to look them up, I want to lock them up.

“We are going to ensure that our laws genuinely are the toughest.”

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