Government decision on youth detention could doom Human Rights Act in Queensland, critics say. When elected, the State Government promised to do better than the Newman government to respect Parliamentary process and Human Rights said Queensland Council for Civil Liberties (QCCL) CEO Michael Cope. “This week, it has failed to live up to its own…
Category: Civil Lberties
Government accused of dangerous backflip on bail breach Bill.
Government accused of dangerous backflip on bail breach Bill.
We lock-up children – why, and where to from here?
It is hard to believe that in 2022, we still lock-up children, but the reality is that 10 to 13 year-olds can be arrested, strip-searched, and imprisoned in Queensland.
A conversation about Prison Abolition with Boneta-Marie Mabo
Calls for prison abolition and defunding police are not new but have come to the fore recently following the murder of George Floyd Jr in the US and the reinvigoration of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement globally. In July, people flocked to Brisbane’s BLM rally, held at the height of the COVID pandemic, in…
Incarceration Nation: 90 minutes of your time that could lead to a lifetime of change.
Filmmaker Dean Gibson says his latest documentary, Incarceration Nation, is part of a “truth series”. It follows from his documentaries, A War of Hope and Wik vs Queensland. His 2015 film, A War of Hope, documented the story of 235 Indigenous residents from Hope Vale in North Queensland, who were forcibly removed from their land…
Release of refugees welcomed, but lack of ongoing Federal Government support “verges on cruelty”.
On Monday 1 March, the Federal Government released 22 people from Kangaroo Point Hotel and three people from Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation (BITA) into the community. A total of 115 refugees have been released from Melbourne and Brisbane detention centres since 20 January. The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) said in a statement that while…
Urgent need for a National approach to social housing
The JobSeeker supplement has improved rental affordability for Newstart households across the country. However, recipients are still facing moderate to extreme rental stress nationwide according to the latest release of the Rental Affordability Index (RAI).