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The President of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, Ian Dearden, today supported the proposed apology to indigenous people to be delivered by Chief Magistrate Diane Fingleton on behalf of the Queensland magistracy. In doing so, Mr Dearden rejected the reported criticism from Chief Justice Paul de Jersey that the move was “not a proper use of the court”.
Read MoreThe Queensland Council for Civil Liberties (QCCL) today accused the Queensland Opposition of planning to go down the same mindless mandatory sentencing track as the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Read MoreThe 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.
