We would be of the view that it would not be appropriate to make the de-identification reversible. This is because it opens up the opportunity for the de-identification process to be reversed for inappropriate purposes.
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“There is no rational reason at all to presume that a sex worker is incapable of being a good teacher.” says Mr Cope President of the QCCL
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“In a democracy people are entitled to try to persuade others to even the most extreme views so long as they do it non violently.”
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The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties today welcomes the decision of the Queensland Government to introduce legislation outlawing the covert filming of people in private places engaged in intimate acts.
The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties endorses the view of Mr Alan Borvoy, General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association that ‘Citizens in a free country should have a presumptive right to get lost. We should be able to wander around without government keeping tabs on us.’
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Politicians and bureaucrats are participating in a cruel hoax by using recent terrorist outrages to justify the need for a National Identity Card, which will not stop terrorists but will bring us a big step closer to George Orwell’s 1984.
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QCCL believes problems within the mental health care landscape have led to a climate of inequity and injustice for people with mental illness. Problems such as the lack of supported accommodation services in the community and the broad failure to prevent people with mental illness entering correctional facilities are symptomatic of a larger theme of inequity across the entire health system. That is, the clear lack of funding and resources afforded to mental health care in this country.
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ACCL President Terry O’Gorman said the poor human rights record of the Howard Government, especially its supine position towards the US over Messrs Hicks and Habib’s imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay, would guarantee a strong backlash against the Prime Minister if he moved to override the ground breaking ACT human rights legislation.
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The Australian Council for Civil Liberties (ACCL) has criticised Catholic Church procedures which caused Archbishop George Pell to publicly out himself and then stand aside while Church authorities consider a 40 year old allegation of child sexual abuse against the Archbishop.
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The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties (QCCL) has criticised the weakening of the external oversight powers of the proposed Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC).
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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”.
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The 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.
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The Annual Report of the Vice-President, Terry O’Gorman - June 15, 2020
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Annual Report of the President Ian Dearden from AGM 15 June 2000
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Annual Report of the Vice-President, Terry O’Gorman - 15 June 1999
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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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The Council submits that it is inappropriate simply to decriminalise the personal use of cannabis. Such a policy represents an unsatisfactory compromise. If criminal penalties should not be imposed upon the personal use of cannabis, then it is difficult to understand why, in principle, there should be a prohibition on its cultivation and distribution. A policy which legalises or decriminalises personal use, but maintains a prohibition upon the cultivation and sale in large quantities of cannabis simply serves to increase the price of cannabis to users and ensures that the cultivation and supply of cannabis is undertaken by criminal organizations.
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Why do people take drugs? The most obvious and natural answer is because they like them. We do not generally look for obscure, psychological or sociological explanations of most drug use in the community. People take alcohol, smoke tobacco, drink tea and coffee because they enjoy the effects of these substances.
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