Australia OPCAT Network | Fmr Prison, Immigration Detention, Mental Health and Aged Care Inspector/Monitor | Churchill Trust Fellow | Views My Own
Oct 23, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Australia voluntarily pledged to ratify the OPCAT as part of its candidacy for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. It made a commitment to the rest of the world that it could be trusted as a leader on human rights. The SPT visit was the true test of that promise.
The SPT were here to see how much progress Australia has made on implementing its obligations under the OPCAT. Obligations we have had since December 2017 to fulfil. As a country that so often calls on others to respect the ‘rules-based international order’,
Oct 28, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
"The state government’s move to establish the new role comes in response to...the Sofronoff Review, the Taskforce Flaxton report and the Independent Review of Youth Detention."
Except they all recommended a Custodial Inspector model not a Ombudsman add on themandarin.com.au/173556-new-ins…
In 2006, the Anti-Discrimination Commission QLD raised concerns about the adequacy of the existing correctional oversight model in QLD through its first Women in Prison Report arguing that ‘a more robust model similar to that created in Western Australia should be legislated.’
