QCCL Public Lecture : Security AND Rights: Closing Australia’s Guantanamo Bay by George Williams

Security AND Rights

An address by Professor George Williams
Constitutional Lawyer and public commentator

Professor Williams will discuss the extraordinary powers granted to Australia’s secret intelligence organisation, ASIO in the wake of September 11 including the detention in secret and coercive questioning on pain of imprisonment of Australian citizens not suspected of any crime and the indefinite detention of refugees subject to adverse security assessments by ASIO. Recent reviews have recommended major changes in both these areas.

Buy your tickets before 4 July to go in the draw to win one of two copies prize draw of Guardian of your Rights: the history of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties

Price includes canapes. There will be a cash bar

Dinner can be purchased at the club from 5.30