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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