Palaszczuk government’s 2019 laws to be weighed against underlying principles of human rights

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The Queensland government’s appeal against the release of several children detained in police watch houses looms as a test for the state’s controversial youth bail laws and its Human Rights Act, legal experts say.

Last week Townsville children’s court released 13 children being held on remand in the city’s police watch house. Some had been in the adult holding cells for an extended period due to overcrowding in the youth detention system.

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