00:02A backlog cleared, clearing the way for justice.
00:06These aren't just numbers, but they are people who are waiting for justice to be served.
00:12The government says 601 rape kits needed analysing when it came to office in November 2024.
00:20That's now done, after outsourcing testing to a lab in the United States.
00:25We never want another backlog with the sexual assault kits.
00:28We have cleared the DNA rape kit backlog.
00:33They've also tested 70% of another 12,000 major crime samples that were caught up in the delays.
00:41It means offenders being brought before the courts much quicker.
00:45It's currently taking up to 60 days to process rape kits overseas.
00:50The state's forensics boss believes his lab in Brisbane could resume testing those kits from as early as July.
00:58Which means that we could be turning around salts within five or ten working days.
01:03Two commissions of inquiry have probed this troubled lab in recent years amid concerns with testing standards.
01:11Tens of thousands of historical samples still need retesting.
01:16Mick Fuller concedes that will take a while.
01:18We will get through them.
01:20I'll make a promise to all the victims in Queensland.
01:22Thank you,igosman.
01:23Do you see that?
01:23Yeah, that's what we saw.
01:24I fell on.
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