Item F2034 - Queensland Council for Civil Liberties briefing material : Commonwealth Games Act, street march ban, award wages on reserves

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F2034

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Queensland Council for Civil Liberties briefing material : Commonwealth Games Act, street march ban, award wages on reserves

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  • 28 Sep 1982 (Creation)

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1 folder

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(1966-)

Administrative history

The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties is a voluntary organisation concerned with the protection of individual rights and civil liberties. Their aims are to be vigilant in matters affecting civil liberties and to seek solutions to problems related to civil liberties. Their slogan is: 'Who's watching them while they're watching you?'. QCCL began with a committee formed by staff from the University of Queensland. They convened a meeting on 20 June 1966 to discuss their concerns with the erosion of civil liberties during demonstrations that year regarding the Vietnam War. Not long after the formation of the Council, a dispute about alleged left-wing control and the intrusion of other political and sectarian influences led to the temporary formation of a Queensland Association for Civil Liberties. However, the Council was reformed following a private meeting held on 18 October 1966, where a draft constitution was adopted and nine members were elected to a provisional executive committee, of which six were associated with the University of Queensland.

Objectives - To be vigilant in matters affecting the rights and liberties of the individual particularly in Queensland; to advise and assist individuals whose rights or liberties are improperly threatened; to collect information on rights and liberties and to disseminate such information; to raise official standards of vigilance in the protection of individual rights and liberties; to study civil liberty laws and press for forward solutions; to encourage public interest in civil liberties.

Publicists - F.D.O. Fielding, J. Hampson, J.B. Kelly, T.P. O'Gorman [Terry O'Gorman], L.R. Smith, L.P. Wyvill.

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Previously titled as: Briefing material : Commonwealth Games Act, street march ban, award wages on reserves.

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Duplicated typescript document, 25 leaves, unpaginated, compiled by the QCCL and released on 28 September 1982. The document takes issue with the Commonwealth Games Act 1982 and the powers it affords police and specially deputised persons; the attempts of the Queensland Government to ban street marches not approved by the Queensland Police; and the lack of payment of award wages on Aboriginal Australian reserves. Also includes political cartoons and newspaper cutting collages throughout.

The following is listed on the index page, after the cover page:

  1. Commonwealth Games Act Commentary by Q.C.C.L.
  2. Correspondence to Prime Minister Fraser [Malcolm Fraser] re Games Act
  3. Commonwealth Games - A Survival Kit prepared by D.C. McKelvey [David Chris McKelvey], Lecturer in Law, University of Queensland
  4. "[Land Rights:] Are You Game? Protest and Sport in Queensland", Legal Service Bulletin, August 1982 by Peter Applegarth
  5. Criticism of Police Minister Hinze's [Russ Hinze] refusal to gazette Orders-in-Council and to specify "prohibited things" under the Act
  6. The Police Commissioner's March Ban Declaration
  7. The Police Department's Double Standard
  8. Editorial, Telegraph, 23.9.82, comparing the Games Act with South African assembly laws
  9. Queensland street march laws and peaceful public assembly - a recent example
  10. Liberal Party Director says Games Act "basis of a police state"
  11. No case for games laws
  12. Existing laws more than adequate
  13. Australia the big loser in Brisbane

The following is listed on the same index page, under the heading 'Award wages':

  1. Commentary on reserve wages by Q.C.C.L.
  2. Letter to Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs (state) Tomkins [Ken Tomkins]
  3. Letter to (federal) Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Wilson [Ian Wilson]
  4. Letter from Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs (state), Porter [Charles Porter]
  5. Letter from Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs, Tomkins
  6. D.A.I.A. [Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs] Wages to Reserve Aborigines

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Unrestricted access.

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In copyright. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.

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  • English

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Related material is held at the Fryer Library in FVF330 Queensland Council for Civil Liberties Ephemera.

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991007815109703131

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Revised

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Partial

Dates of creation revision deletion

Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 22-Jan-2025.
Revised, SJB, 18-Nov-2022.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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