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MEDIA RELEASE – Queensland Advocacy welcomes landmark Human Rights legislation tabled in Queensland Parliament today

Printer friendly version Pdf 31 October 2018 For immediate release Queensland Advocacy welcomes landmark Human Rights legislation tabled in Queensland Parliament today It is with much excitement that Queensland Advocacy Incorporated (QAI) thanks and congratulates the Queensland Government for introducing a Human Rights Bill for Queensland. The announcement by the Queensland Attorney-General, the […]

Posted on 31/10/2018 by Admin
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Let’s Nix 216

Section 216 of our Queensland Criminal Code makes it unlawful (i.e. a criminal offence) for any person to have intimate relations (i.e. sex!) with another person who has ‘impairment of the mind’, which is defined broadly in the Criminal Code and includes any person with an intellectual, psychiatric, cognitive or neurological impairment that results in […]

Posted on 03/04/201803/04/2018 by Nick Collyer
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Human Rights Commission – Historic Decision Today on New Queensland Trains

290318 Summary of Decision QR & TMR

Posted on 29/03/201829/03/2018 by Nick Collyer
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A disability aware approach to torture prevention? Australian OPCAT ratification and improved protections for people with disability’

Article in the Australian Journal of Human Rights – co-authored with QAI’s Emma Phillips: ‘A disability aware approach to torture prevention? Australian OPCAT ratification and improved protections for people with disability’ https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8FMNHGjFaeD46hq2jr5K/full

Posted on 26/03/201807/01/2019 by Admin
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Ensuring a Strong Future for Supported Employment

Submission by Queensland Advocacy Incorporated Department of Social Services Link: QAI submission – the future of supported employment

Posted on 15/03/2018 by Admin
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General Issues around the Implementation and Performance of the NDIS

General Issues around the Implementation and Performance of the NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE SCHEME Supplementary Submission by Queensland Advocacy Incorporated General Issues around the Implementation and Performance of the NDIS

Posted on 15/03/201815/03/2018 by Admin
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Review of Termination of Pregnancy Laws in Queensland

Review of Termination of Pregnancy Laws in Queensland QAI submission to QLRC – Review of Termination of Pregnancy Laws in Queensland

Posted on 15/03/201815/03/2018 by Admin
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PLACEMENT REFLECTION: QUEENSLAND ADVOCACY INCORPORATED

Author: Evee Perich Last year I completed my final placement for my Masters of Social work with Queensland Advocacy Incorporated (QAI). Being a community legal centre within the disability sector I was apprehensive about how my social work placement would look however, to my surprise, my time at QAI completely changed how I approach […]

Posted on 14/03/2018 by Admin
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Trains Exemption

QAI submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission opposing the Queensland Government’s application for temporary exemptions from the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport.

Posted on 30/01/2018 by Nick Collyer
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QAI submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the General Comment on Equality and Non-discrimination (Article 5)

QAI submission Equality and Non- discrimination (Article 5)171114 FINAL

Posted on 30/11/2017 by Nick Collyer
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