Dame Quentin presented the taskforce's findings to Mr Newman's successor,Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk,at Parliament House in Brisbane on Saturday.
Dame Quentin said her taskforce,which had received clear bipartisan support,had been deeply moved during its travels across Queensland.
"We are all alarmed by the statistics – they are shocking – but they do not do full justice that we have heard about from survivors,"she said.
"Their stories could have come from war zones. Stories of women brutalised,raped,beaten,controlled,isolated.
"These violent actions are not the actions of civilised people and they will not be tolerated."
Among the 140 recommendations in the report,which has been published in full online,was the establishment of specialised domestic violence courts.
"Alarmingly,women frequently told us that the workings of the law and the justice system only served to further traumatise them,"Dame Quentin said.