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Protecting Queenslanders: QAI submission is critical of Queensland bill that would give the Premier power to make decisions on monitoring of people with disability convicted of sexual offences

The QAI submission to the Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee Inquiry into the Bill 2018 (‘the Bill’) opposes the Bill in general, and is critical of a number of provisions in the Bill proposed by Mr David Janetzki MP, the Member for Toowoomba South.  In particular, QAI opposes the provision  that would give the Premier power to make decisions on monitoring of people with disability convicted of sexual offences.

QAI told the Committee that the Bill:

.. [p]otentially departs from fundamental legislative principles because it mandates administrative rather than judicial power to review indeterminate supervision, undermining the separation of powers and the necessary checks and balances critical to the effective operation of our Westminster-based political system.

QAI’s Dr Nick Collyer appeared at the Committee’s public hearing, stating in his evidence to the Committee that:

For the vast majority of victims of sexual abuse, it is not about the stranger hiding in the dark alleyway or the paedophile in the playground. Most sexual assaults and rapes are committed by someone the victim knows. Among victims aged 18 to 19, two-thirds had a prior relationship with the offender. Most child sexual abuse is committed by men—90 per cent—and by persons known to the child—70 to 90 per cent—with family members constituting one-third to one-half of the perpetrators against girls and 10 to 20 per cent of the perpetrators against boys. According to one study, one in six Australian women were physically or sexually abused by the age of 15, one in three Australian women have experienced physical violence since the age of 15 and on average one Australian woman is murdered per week by her current or her former partner.

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QAI’s Dr Collyer on Parliament TV

The Committee’s reporting due date is Tuesday, 19 March 2019.

 

  • 12 Dec, 2018
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  • By Nick Collyer
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Inquiry into the Future of Petitioning in the House

Submission by QAI: Inquiry into the future of petitioning in the House

  • 8 Nov, 2018
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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

  • 15 Mar, 2018
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Human rights hypocrisy

QAI media release on the right to free speech and the media reporting of issues impacting on vulnerable people

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  • 7 Oct, 2016
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  • By Emma Phillips
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Attorney-General, extend inquiry into youth detention to include disabilities

QAI media release calling on the Queensland Attorney-General to extend the inquiry into youth detention to include youths with disability

Media Release A-G extend inquiry Aug 16

  • 24 Aug, 2016
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  • By Emma Phillips
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Bouquets for State Budget but (show us the money) for Mental Health Act’

QAI media release calling for funding for mental health in the Queensland budget

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  • 16 Jun, 2016
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  • By Emma Phillips
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NDIS and the federal election

QAI media release on the NDIS and the upcoming federal election

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  • 16 Jun, 2016
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  • By Emma Phillips
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Queensland Advocacy Incorporated calls for human rights protection for all Queenslanders

QAI media release on the pressing need for a Human Rights Act in Queensland

15.04.28 Media Release – Human Rights Act for Queensland

  • 28 Apr, 2015
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  • By Emma Phillips
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‘I’m not sick – I have a disability!’

QAI media release on the development of the NDIS

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  • 25 Oct, 2013
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  • By Emma Phillips
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