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Work Choices Decision Highlights Need for Human Rights Act: Mr. Cope President of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties says “The decision of the High Court in Workchoices case brings home the vast increase in commonwealth powers which have occurred particularly in the last 30 years. In doing so it also adds to the case for the Commonwealth Government to introduce a Human Rights and Responsibilities Act “.
Read MoreThe NSW Ombudsman in a report released in September this year after a 2 year inquiry found no evidence that the use of sniffer dogs disrupted street dealing in any sustained fashion. The evidence also showed that the use of police sniffer dogs didn’t reduce drug related crime. Nor did their use lead to any increase in perceptions of public safety.
Read MoreThe Council takes the view that nude beaches should be permitted so long as they are in secluded areas and are known and clearly marked as nude beaches. If necessary, the State Government or relevant local councils should take steps to designate nude beaches and to mark and publicise them appropriatel
Read MoreWe 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.
Read More“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
Read More“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.”
Read MoreThe 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.’
Read MorePoliticians 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.
Read MoreQCCL 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.
Read MoreACCL 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe Queensland Council for Civil Liberties (QCCL) has criticised the weakening of the external oversight powers of the proposed Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC).
Read MoreThe 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 Annual Report of the Vice-President, Terry O’Gorman - June 15, 2020
Read MoreAnnual Report of the President Ian Dearden from AGM 15 June 2000
Read MoreAnnual Report of the Vice-President, Terry O’Gorman - 15 June 1999
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.
