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I begin by saying that the Council is opposed to the use of live facial recognition technology in public places, whether they be publicly or privately owned. We are on the precipice of a completely different world, where our open societies are turned into systems of constant surveillance. The panopticon on steroids.
Read More“Children, especially the teenagers that are the Bill’s primary subject, are to the relevant level capable of making their own decisions, and where a parent has not been proven to have incited or condoned a child’s misbehaviour, the child should be held responsible for it alone.”
Read MoreWe begin by noting what appears to be the irony of a conservative government introducing this type of legislation, since conservatives are usually associated with strong support for the rights of parents to choose how to bring up their children.
Read MoreModern policing apparently involves disrupting legal behaviour that makes people uncomfortable so the AFP told Parliament but in its letter to us it says something different…But surely we should believe what the AFP told Parliament?
Read MoreThe QCCL does not endorse the tenets of national socialism in any way. However, we have concerns about members of a criminal law enforcement agency taking action to ‘disrupt’ the lawful conduct of members of the Australian community because the conduct is denominated a ‘threat to social cohesion.’
Read MoreAcknowledging then that the government has a legitimate interest in combating fire ants, that interest must be weighed against the fundamental interests protected by the right to privacy and particularly access to private property in the form of a person’s house.
Read MoreSex offender registries create a false sense of security because most perpetrators of sex offences are known to their victims or their families. In 2015 around 75% of sexual assault victims knew their offender, while one third of victims were assaulted by a family member
“Inconvenience or offence, as opposed to violence, experienced by some people cannot justify a law which needlessly exposes some of the most disadvantaged people in our community to the loss of liberty and the heightened risk of serious injury or death” said Mr Cope
Read MoreThe QCCL submits that there is no version of a PPD scheme that limits human rights in this way which could possibly be justifiable in accordance with section 13 of the Human Rights Act
Read More“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 MoreThe removal of the “reasonable suspicion” requirement, or any other objective basis for the search, rendered the citizen extremely vulnerable to an arbitrary exercise of power, restrained only by the police officer's honesty
Read MoreIn our submission, these powers should cease at sunset because they remain disproportionate to human rights protections in Australia, their (limited) use does not justify their continued existence and ultimately, they are better repealed to be the subject of the outcome to the Electronic Surveillance Framework.
Read MoreIt has been found that, aside from the shame and humiliation associated with searches, disproportionate stop and search practices can also cause people to feel a diminished sense of belonging, fear, insecurity, anxiety, intimidation and helplessness.
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