At the recent Queensland state Labor conference Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the government’s commitment to a human rights act, modelled on the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006.
One of the purported justifications for a human rights charter is the protection it offers to individual rights against authoritarian State incursion.
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