{"id":607215,"date":"2026-04-14T23:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607215\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:18:12","slug":"victorian-opposition-announces-bail-sentencing-policy-including-one-strike-bail-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607215\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian opposition announces bail, sentencing policy including ‘one strike’ bail rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Victorian opposition has promised to toughen bail and sentencing laws if it wins government at the state election later this year.<\/p>\n

As part of their new policy announced on Wednesday morning, the Liberals and Nationals said they would introduce their own reforms after the Labor government strengthened bail laws last year.<\/p>\n

Under the plan, the opposition will expand the number of offences treated as adult crimes to include burglary, serious assault and attempted murder.<\/p>\n

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The opposition says the government’s changes to bail laws last year are insufficient. (Supplied: ABC News)<\/p>\n

The Coalition has also proposed to introduce a “one-strike bail rule”, meaning offenders who reoffend would be automatically denied bail.<\/p>\n

The opposition would also strengthen the offence of breach of bail and extend breach of bail laws to youth offenders by removing an existing “youth exemption”.<\/p>\n

The Victorian government last year passed new bail and sentencing laws<\/a>, including its so-called “adult time for violent crime” bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those new laws \u2014 released amid record high youth crime in the state<\/a> \u2014 removed remand in custody as a last resort for youth offenders, introduced stricter bail tests for people who committed a crime while already on bail, and reclassified home invasions and carjackings as more serious offences.<\/p>\n

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Premer Jacinta Allan has touted the government’s new bail laws as the toughest in the country. (AAP Image: Joel Carrett)<\/p>\n

Opposition Leader Jess Wilson said the proposed bail laws aim to “end Labor’s crime crisis and keep Victorians safe”.<\/p>\n

“Labor’s weak laws and revolving-door bail system are putting dangerous offenders back on the street and continuing the cycle of crime. The system must change,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Our stronger bail and sentencing laws will mean serious consequences for serious crime and back the work Victoria Police is doing to hold offenders to account.”<\/p>\n

Shadow Attorney-General James Newbury said the community expected a tough response to crime.<\/p>\n

“The community’s had enough. The community knows that the laws are too weak. The community also knows that the bail system isn’t meeting community expectations,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We have announced a policy that expands the type of offences by which, if you behave badly, you will not get bail. If you are a criminal, you will end up in jail.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Victorian opposition has promised to toughen bail and sentencing laws if it wins government at the state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,17192,116255,48,3786,127356,127355,1788,10940,44,10839,295425,660],"class_list":{"0":"post-607215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bail","11":"tag-bail-laws","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-government","14":"tag-james-newbury","15":"tag-jess-wilson","16":"tag-labor","17":"tag-liberal-party","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-policy","20":"tag-sentencing-laws","21":"tag-victoria"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}