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Judge dread

16 March 2019

9:00 AM

16 March 2019

9:00 AM

Let me talk about an example of an undemocratic trend from my home state of Queensland. A fortnight ago the Queensland parliament passed the Human Rights Act 2019. This is the name that’s been given to what is a statutory bill of rights, not unlike the one in Victoria nor even much different to the one Tony Blair had enacted in the UK.

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