The Civil Liberties Council today described as farcical the CMC’s announcement that it would not conclude its investigation into the death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee until sometime next year.
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The Bligh government stands condemned for its confused and confusing approach to the issue of same sex surrogacy as opposed to adoption by same sex couples.
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The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties has today called on the Queensland government to implement Labor party policy by reforming abortion law in Queensland. If the government is not prepared to lead on this issue it should ask the Law Reform Commission to review the issue as was done in Victoria.
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The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties has called upon the Parliamentary
Committee supervising the CMC to summons CMC head Robert Needham to a public hearing.
QCCL Vice President Terry O’Gorman said today a public hearing was needed to
explain why the CMC has taken four years to complete its investigation of the Queensland police handling of the aftermath of the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee.
The members of this Council do not think that there is any single way to protect civil liberties in this country. The pluralistic, open, democratic society in which we live only survives because the citizens of this country believe in it sufficiently to be active in support of it. This however does not mean that we cannot improve our institutional arrangements to ensure that they best support the continued existence of that society.
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QCCL MEDIA RELEASE: CALL FOR LAWPREVENTING PUBLIC IDENTIFICATION OF ACCUSED SEXUAL OFFENDERS
In the wake of Dennis Ferguson’s acquittal, the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties has again called for a law change preventing persons charged with a sexual offence, especially a child sexual offence, from being publicly identified especially by the media until after they are convicted.
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Eminent community leaders, human rights activists and Members of the Legislative Assembly will meet this Wednesday evening at Queensland Parliament House to discuss whether Queensland’s legislative treatment of the rights of its citizens is falling behind comparable neighbour states and nations.
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