QAI made a submission in response to the Review of the Queensland Human Rights Commission and Queensland’s Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights statutory framework.
Our submission focuses on three recurring themes:
- the need to retain and strengthen, rather than narrow the Queensland Human Rights Commission’s existing functions and judicial oversight mechanisms;
- the importance of improving access to justice for people with disabilities, including by removing unnecessary procedural barriers to making complaints; and
- the need for robust and enforceable protections against discrimination, including the introduction of a positive duty under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) and improved remedies for breaches of the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld).
Read the submission here: