Proposed law changes include allowing children to be detained in adult watch houses for the next three years
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The Queensland government has introduced legislation to allow it to imprison children in police watch houses for adults “even if it would not be compatible with human rights”.
The police minister, Mark Ryan, introduced the amendment as part of a swathe of changes to an unrelated bill in state parliament on Wednesday afternoon. It will require a suspension of the state’s Human Rights Act.
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