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“The traditional requirement that before a search can proceed there must be a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed or a weapon found is a bulwark protection of our liberty. Such a requirement is essential to being able to prevent arbitrary searches or searches based on bias. The granting of such powers will inevitably result in unwarranted invasions of privacy.”
Read MoreEvery Australian has a right to freedom of speech and freedom of protest. It is the tactic of authoritarian regimes the world over to have armed police officers visit a person’s home to attempt to dissuade them from exercising their legitimate right to freedom of speech and freedom of protest.
Read More“It is absolutely vital that this Commission is not given an unrestrained roving commission to enforce vague notions of integrity” said Mr Cope
Read MoreIt is to be hoped that the Inquiry in reporting on the police discipline term of reference will recommend a top to bottom thorough and fundamental change to a seriously flawed Queensland Police discipline system”, Mr O’Gorman said.
Read MoreMr O’Gorman posed the question does this mean that no practising Catholic can ever be a CEO of Essendon or any other football codes or clubs who have approved or have been silent on the circumstances of Mr Thorburn’s departure from Essendon
Read More“To change the double jeopardy law to get the State Government out of a political problem of its own making must be fought robustly and vigorously”, Mr OGorman said.
Read More“Faulty science has been one of the leading causes of miscarriages of justice in Queensland and throughout Australia for decades going back to the infamous Lindy Chamberlain monumental forensic scientific failure in the 1980s,” Mr Cope said.
Read MoreEvidence given by a former Queensland Homicide Detective at this week’s Whiskey Au Go Go bombing inquest that verballing allegations against police were “what criminal lawyers did in those days” is a tired old almost 50 year refrain by senior former Queensland Police trying to rewrite history.
Read More“The government keeps on telling us that the powers will come to an end one day, but it will not tell us in advance in what circumstances it says it will no longer need the powers. This is not the approach of an open and accountable government.”
Read More“With the vast majority of the population vaccinated in a way which is overwhelmingly effective at preventing serious illness or hospitalization and effective treatments, including the Pfizer one which is 89% effective, it is time to allow people to make their own assessment of how they want to spend their time and the risks involved”.
Read MoreWe recognise the importance of ensuring security of Australians’ and their freedoms. The rationale for national security law comes from the importance of ensuring that freedoms are protected. We are concerned to ensure that the ‘forest isn’t lost for the trees’ in this reform process and that the guiding and predominant principle in this reform is that our national security framework serves to protect the freedoms that ought to be enjoyed by all Australians.
Read MoreThe Civil Liberties Council today backed calls for a public inquiry into integrity issues in the Queensland Government and the Queensland Public Service, particularly into the Public Service Commission’s alleged meddling in the operations of the Office of the Integrity Commissioner
Read MoreThe social media platform is simply the provider of a space, a forum, in which people make contributions. They are not like for example the editor of a newspaper- controllers of what content goes on their sites.
Read More“Whilst the laws will provide a significant improvement over the current position they do not go far enough” says Michael Cope QCCL President
Read More“The Premier cannot make law by press release. It is entirely inappropriate that almost 2 weeks out from these complex rules coming into place, businesses and individuals in this State cannot plan properly for the new laws” says QCCL President Michael Cope
Read More“It is the QCCL’s view that the materials produced by Mr Thomas are sufficient to justify the Queensland government appointing an independent expert to conduct an inquiry into the allegations made by Dr Wright in order to ensure that public confidence in the administration of justice in the State is maintained.”
Read MoreQCCL President Michael Cope says, “The QCCL is not an anti vax organisation. At the same time we respect everyone’s right to bodily integrity and to control their medical treatment. We believe all medical treatment, which includes vaccination should be voluntary.
Read MoreQCCL President Michael Cope said today, “The QCCL endorses the comments by Scott McDougall Queensland Human Rights Commissioner that the approach to border exemption applications has resulted in the rights of applicants for border exemptions not being properly considered.”
Read MoreIn June this year a committee of the UK House of Commons identified significant ethical issues with Covid passports and found that the Government had failed to make out the scientific basis for immunity passports
Read MoreMr Murray also said that the foreshadowed integration “between QPRIME and Qld Health seems like a complete disaster waiting to happen”
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