Sounds like a good move.

Anyone who may be harmful to others has an exception, so there’s no risk cops won’t say try to stop a kid with a knife trying to murder others.

And any of the children are still going to get their details taken down, it’s not like they’ll escape this ever catching up with them just because they don’t get locked up on the day.

This way a lot of it can ideally be chased up by more appropriate social workers, and with proper training compared to cops on the street.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The bill also includes measures that the premier, Jacinta Allan, said would crack down on “serious, high-risk and repeat” youth offending.

“This is legislation that will reduce youth offending, it will increase safety, but … it will provide an opportunity for young people to turn their lives around,” Allan told reporters.

The government will also codify the existing legal presumption known as doli incapax, which states a child under 14 cannot be held criminally responsible unless they know their actions are seriously wrong.

Several human rights groups and Indigenous organisations had called for Victoria to immediately raise the age to 14, in line with medical expert advice and international standards for child development.

The state Greens leader, Ellen Sandell, claimed the government had “caved in to right-wing pressure” and “chosen to ignore all the advice of experts and First Nations communities” to raise the age to 14.

The opposition leader, John Pesutto, said the Coalition would form a position on the bill once they had seen the thousand-page document in full.

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