Qld defends lack of scrutiny on new laws

Queensland's deputy premier has defended rushing through new laws on bikies and sex offenders. Source: AAP

THE Queensland government has defended rushing through new laws on bikies and sex offenders without scrutiny by a parliamentary committee.

Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney says the committee system was never meant to scrutinise every piece of legislation.

When quizzed on the fact about 15 per cent of new laws had skipped the process under the Newman government, Mr Seeney said there was nothing wrong with that.

"I was one of the architects of the committee system. We always recognised that it would be the legislation that required public input that would go to the committee," he told the ABC.

"That bipartisan group of senior politicians always recognised there would be a percentage of the legislation that would be deemed to be urgent and wouldn't go through the committee process."

The government's controversial bikie gang and sex offender laws both bypassed the system, along with changes to Queensland's workers' compensation system.

All three pieces of legislation were deemed urgent.

The Katter party says the committee process is being abused and should be scrapped.

The government has faced a mountain of criticism over its bikie and sex offender laws, including from some of the state's most respected legal minds who have accused the government of trying to interfere in the criminal justice system.

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