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“Whatever you think of people who perpetrate domestic and family violence, the idea that police could turn up to your property and have the power to throw you out of your own home without any intervention of a court should scare every Queenslander,” said QCCL President Michael Cope.
Read MoreDomestic and family violence is an ongoing scourge in our community. We do not think it necessary to repeat what is already well-known about the level of family and domestic violence and the harm that it does. These statistics are in any event, well summarised in the discussion paper.
However from a Civil Liberties point of view whilst the prevention of harm is a necessary condition for government to take action it is not a sufficient condition.
ln taking action to protect members of the community from harm, the state has to have regard to the
rights and liberties of other individuals. ln particular, before interfering with the rights and liberties of others it is that fundamental that the State demonstrates that the proposed measure will be effective at protecting the members of the community it is intended to protect.
The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties (QCCL) today supported Police Commissioner
Jim O'Sullivan's call for an inquiry into violence and alcoholism in remote Queensland Aboriginal communities.
QCCL Vice-President Terry O'Gorman said that the recent valuable series of articles by the
Courier Mail highlighted a problem which had not been appreciated by him or the Executive of the QCCL until recently.
Annual report of the President delivered at the Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 15 March 1995
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