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Vulnerable Queensland children will have to be educated about their rights and where they can seek help, and foster carers will be vetted more stringently under new state laws.

Minster for Children and Youth Leanne Linard said the changes reinforce children's rights, give young people a say in decisions that impact them and better regulate care.

The laws, passed by state parliament on Tuesday night, are expected to impact the lives of many Indigenous children in the system.

"They told us about the rights they want to see protected, including the right to be treated with respect and the right to be treated fairly," Ms Linard said in a statement on Tuesday night.

"Today's bill addresses these concerns and provides significant new rights to children in the protection system."

Under the changes, authorities must make purposeful, thorough and timely efforts to protect First Nations children and ensure they're safe.

They must also ensure the safety, wellbeing and the best interests of a child are taken into account when decisions are being made about them.

Children in the child protection system have to be taught about their rights and how they can get help.

A Charter of Rights has also been expanded for young people to include cultural, religious, language, fairness, respect, identity development, play and recreation.

Ms Linard said the laws will also make it easier for children to question decisions made about their care and adults will have to "genuinely listen to, engage with, and understand the child's views".

Meanwhile, authorities will be allowed to access a person's expanded criminal history when assessing their suitability to be a carer.

Carer certificates will valid for three years, rather than the current two.

The minister also said the laws made it easier for kinship carers to apply.

The changes also more clearly lay out reporting requirements and will set out the legal framework for a statewide carers' register.

Finally, the minister's department will be allowed to provide information to a parents when a child dies, regardless if the child was subject to an order or how old they are.

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Scott Morrison insists a federal integrity body needs to be different to those operating at a state level and be squarely aimed at public service criminality.

The prime minister's comments came as Labor leader Anthony Albanese said a national anti-corruption commission would be one of the first things he would address if he won the May 21 election.

Tackling corruption and improving integrity in politics has been a key issue in the election campaign, with a number of high-profile independent candidates and the Greens also putting it at the centre of their pitches to voters.

Campaigning with NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet in Sydney on Tuesday, Mr Morrison - who previously described the NSW ICAC model as a "kangaroo court" - said he did not believe any of the state models for integrity bodies should be followed.

Mr Morrison said the issues being dealt with at a state level included such things as development consent and gambling, while at a federal level it was about taxation, competition policy, law enforcement integrity and immigration decisions.

His model would deal with "criminality across the entire public service", he said.

"It's not just about having any integrity commission - one that is driven by populism, one that has just been driven by the latest thought bubble," Mr Morrison said.

He said the NSW ICAC had destroyed people's reputations and careers before even handing down findings in some cases.

Mr Perrottet said all integrity agencies should ensure "the best standards in public life" including among politicians.

"Whether that's in the public service or in politicians, that is the expectation right around the country," he said.

The coalition's proposed laws have been widely condemned by legal experts and integrity campaigners who say ministers involved in corruption in awarding grants or approving contracts or projects, or even accepting bribes, could not be held accountable under them.

Mr Albanese said a powerful, transparent and independent anti-corruption commission would be a priority of a Labor government.

Asked by reporters in Melbourne about the Victorian IBAC model, he said the federal body should operate "according to how it sees it should operate and not take directives from politicians about how it operates".

Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus told AAP the prime minister would not set up an integrity commission because he was "terrified it will hold him and his government to account for their rorts and corruption".

"That's why Mr Morrison broke his 2019 election promise to the Australian people that that he would establish an anti-corruption commission. Mr Morrison won't act. Labor will," Mr Dreyfus said.

On the first day of pre-polling on Monday, 309,769 people cast their ballots ahead of the election, according to figures released by the Australian Electoral Commission on Tuesday.

Of the top 10 early voting booths, two were in Queensland while the rest were in Victoria.

This year's election is expected to set a pre-poll voting record, eclipsing the more than 30 per cent of voters who did so in 2019.

The latest Roy Morgan poll has Labor on 54.5 per cent of the two-party preferred vote, based on preference flows from the 2019 election.

Labor is leading in NSW, Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia while the Liberal-National coalition has the edge in Queensland and Tasmania, the poll shows.

"On current trends, the ALP will win a majority of seats at the federal election and any crossbenchers elected will not hold the balance of power," Roy Morgan CEO Michele Levine said.

"However, a late swing to the LNP over the last two weeks of the election campaign could still produce a hung parliament with the ALP favoured to be able to form government with crossbench support."

Mr Albanese started the day in Melbourne, where he announced support for the Suburban Rail Loop project in Victoria.

Meanwhile, the coalition pitched $5 million in spending to create a "technology skills passport" to help people get jobs.

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Melbourne's superstar fullback Ryan Papenhuyzen will be sidelined for up to six weeks after suffering a hamstring tear and a posterior cruciate ligament injury in Sunday's NRL win over St George Illawarra.

In another blow, rangy centre Reimis Smith will have surgery after scans confirmed a ruptured pectoral muscle against the Dragons and he will be out for 10 to 12 weeks.

Papenhuyzen's injury will again wreck his chances of making his State of Origin debut.

He was in the NSW squad in 2020 but couldn't press for a position due to a calf injury and last year he was sidelined with ongoing concussion symptoms.

In scintillating form, Papenhuyzen is leading the Dally M Medal count but is also set to surrender that.

His place at fullback for their Magic Round top-of-the-table clash with champions Penrith on Saturday night has been taken by Nick Meaney.

Dean Ieremia will come on to the wing to cover Meaney while Marion Seve has been named to replace Smith in the centres.

Due to a large injury toll in the Storm's outside backs, the club had to seek approval for Seve after he was relegated to the development squad following a serious knee injury in 2020 that curtailed his career.

The Samoan international managed two NRL games late last year.

Tui Kamikamica has been included on the reserves list for the first time this season after completing his nine-game suspension.

The Fijian-born prop was hit with an NRL breach notice after an off-field incident for bringing the game into disrepute.

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