Forwarded from Christine Howes:
ATSIC Media Release: Queensland: The Police State?
ATSIC has joined civil liberties groups and Queensland's Anti
Discrimination
Commissioner in warning of a massive increase in arbitrary and
unappealable
police powers, including controversial new "move on" provisions.
ATSIC Commissioner for Brisbane Patricia Thompson, today called for
Premier
Peter Beattie to suspend the passage of the bill through State
Parliament
to allow for adequate parliamentary and public scrutiny.
"The Police Powers and Responsibilities Bill contains a massive increase
in
arbitrary police powers, but it has had almost no parliamentary or
public
scrutiny," Commissioner Thompson said.
"The provisions of the bill are an unprecedented assault on the basic
rights
and liberties of all Queenslanders.
"Alarm bells should be ringing for every member of the Queensland
Parliament over many aspects this legislation, not just the 'move on'
provisions.
"Yet there has hardly been a murmur from politicians or the mainstream
media
over this.
"There clearly needs to be a lot more public and parliamentary scrutiny
of
these measures unless the Government is prepared to wear the odium of
Queensland being portrayed as a police state."
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