The federal government hasn't given up on a plan to slap control orders on teenage terror suspects as young as 14.
Draft laws to lower the age at which people can be held to 14 years, from 16, will be reintroduced to parliament as part of a two-pronged effort to deal with the threat of terror attacks.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull argues the measure is proportionate while Attorney-General George Brandis says it's justified, pointing to last year's fatal attack by a 15-year-old boy on Parramatta police accountant Curtis Chang.
"As we saw tragically ... 16 is too low a threshold," Senator Brandis told reporters in Sydney on Monday.
The government has also accepted all the recommendations a parliamentary committee made after looking at the bill before it was set aside at the calling of the July 2 election.
The committee's report said the laws should explicitly state a young person had the right to legal representation and make their best interests the "primary consideration" when courts considered the conditions of an order.
A parent or guardian of the young person would also be notified of the details of any orders.
Senator Brandis said a special regime of juvenile controls would reflect the fact that young people were in a different situation to adult offenders, although they may potentially be "just as dangerous".
The draft laws also propose a new offence banning the advocating of genocide.
