2am last drinks. No takeaway booze after 10pm. No 'high-alcohol' drinks after midnight.

Queensland will introduce the country's toughest lockout laws, including a 1am lockout and 2am last drinks, after the minority Government secured support for its alcohol-fuelled violence laws.

The measures will be introduced in a staged approach: from July this year last drinks will be at 2am across Queensland, while late trading venues in one of the state's 15 entertainment precincts will see last drinks at 3am.

Then, from February 2017, those venues trading until 3am will have to introduce a 1am lockout.

Casinos across Queensland are exempt though because the Government considers their licensing laws restrictive enough.

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Queensland is run by a minority government, so without Opposition support the Palaszczuk administration needed minor parties on side. That support came Wednesday morning when Queensland's two Katter Australia Party MPs, Robbie Katter and Shane Knuth, agreed to vote for the new laws, albeit with some conditions.

One of those conditions is the power for courts to ban anyone convicted of drug offences from the state's Safe Night Precincts. Currently courts can ban violent offenders from these areas, but the Katter MP's wanted these powers extended.

To be clear, this doesn't mean if you've been convicted of a drug offence you're automatically banned, just that a judge can issue a banning order when handing down drug verdicts.

Tougher lockout laws an election promise

While the lockout debate in Queensland was spurred on by the death of 18-year-old Cole Miller in January the measures agreed to today were actually promised by the Palaszczuk Labor team during its election campaign last year.

When announcing parliamentary support for the laws this morning Queensland's Attorney General, Yvette D'Ath, declared a "proud and historic day."

"It's been a long time coming and there's been a lot of community advocates that have seen the need for change when it comes to our culture around drinking."

6,000 jobs could be at risk

"We're risking the heart of the city and all of these great businesses and musicians and all of these people who work and play and live in the area," says Nick Braban, the secretary of Out Nightlife Queensland, a peak body for the state's bars and clubs.

"Our estimate was around 6,000 jobs in Queensland [will go], that's about a $150 million hit to the economy and about 80 venues that may shut," Nick says, but that was before the Katter Party delayed the introduction of the 1am lockout, so modeling will need to be redone.

"Like we've seen in King's Cross it's going to turn the place into a very different landscape," Nick says of Queensland's nightlife.

Brisbane has lived with a 3am lockout for almost ten years, but Nick says when you pull that forward to 1am across the state's 15 entertainment precincts it's really early in the night.

"We're talking 550 businesses across the state are affected by that, whereas the 3am [lockout] only affected about 90, so the effects will really ripple out in a much bigger way."

"Look, a lot of businesses will survive, but it's the smaller ones that will feel it when that 1am lockout comes in."

The Brisbane music industry fears the worst as well, with venue booker Dominic Miller telling ABC News the changes will hit important early morning trade.

"Most live music venues open as a bar, a normal bar, between midnight and 3:00am or midnight and 5:00am on Friday and Saturday nights. Those three hours are when we make most of our money for the week.

"It allows us to subsidise those gigs that may only get 100, 200, 300 people on a Wednesday or Thursday night."

Dom's afraid earlier closing times will mean Brisbane won't be able to support its up-and-coming musical talent.

"If there's no gigs, the bands are going to move ... or they are just not going to make that next level in the first place, and we will miss out on those great exports that we have at the moment, bands like Violent Soho."

