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Overcrowding in Queensland Prisons

Today’s Courier Mail report (15/2/21) dealing with serious overcrowding in Queensland jails resulting in fatigued prison officers having to work 18 hour shifts and sleeping in their cars to keep up with the soaring inmate population has caused the QCCL to call on the Corrective Services Minister (Mark Ryan) as to why an Independent Inspectorate of Prisons has not been established in Queensland.

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COVID-19 & Automatic Number Plate Recognition - More Mass Surveillance

The QCCL has written to the Commissioner of Police asking for comment in relation to reports that police are using ANPR (Automated Number Plate Recognition Technology) to charge people with breaching the Home Confinement Direction by travelling more than 50km from their home.

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Councils for Civil Liberties' Joint Statement on COVID-Safe Bill

The NSW, Queensland and South Australian Councils for Civil Liberties support the introduction of effective digital contact tracing if it has robust privacy and transparency legislation underpinning it. There are however outstanding issues the Government should address before this Bill is passed.

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Minister Dutton Glories in his Cruelty

“I can say without knowing the details that a significant number of them despite having been punished according to law, have been sentenced again to a bleak existence without their loved ones, without income and in many cases because they can’t speak the language with no prospect of any meaningful existence in the communities to which they have been sent.”

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MEDIA RELEASE VOTER IDENTIFICATION LAWS SHOULD BE REJECTED - 26 November 2013

Voter Identification Laws Should be Rejected: Last week the Queensland Government introduced a Bill which will require voters to produce identification before voting at state elections. Michael Cope, President of the QCCL, said today, “Voter identification laws will unjustifiably disenfranchise the elderly, the young, the poor and the disadvantaged.”

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