How long criminal conviction stays on record in Australia depends on state and spent convictions scheme, with convictions staying on criminal history permanently but becoming spent after 10 years for adults and 5 years for juveniles if no further offending and not serious offence, meaning not disclosed for most jobs. In Australia, criminal convictions stay on your National Police History record permanently, but under Spent Convictions Scheme, convictions become spent after 10 years for adults with no further conviction and sentence under 30 months, and 5 years for juveniles, so for most employment checks spent convictions not disclosed, though for police, working with children and some government jobs spent convictions still disclosed. For example, theft conviction with 12 months sentence, after 10 years with no further offending, becomes spent and not shown on standard criminal history check for job $50 fee, but still shown for police check for working with children $100. Serious offences like sexual and serious violent with sentence over 30 months never become spent. So criminal conviction stays on record permanently on police database, but becomes spent after 10 years for adults and 5 years for juveniles for most jobs if no further offending and sentence under 30 months, meaning not disclosed for 90% of employment checks, but remains for police, working with children and some government roles, with serious offences over 30 months never spent.
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