Health
Warning travel restrictions could breach human rights – Sydney Morning Herald
The nation’s human rights chief has called on leaders to justify the emergency measures that curtail personal freedom amid a push to ease COVID-19 restrictions.
Professor Croucher told a Senate estimates hearing on Thursday the commission had received 1200 queries about the pandemic and believed governments needed to reveal more about the reasons for their restrictions.
“I am concerned at the lack of transparency in explaining the continued justification for some emergency measures, and even for identifying precisely which level of government is responsible for some of them,” she said.
“The checks and balances that ordinarily exist are integral to our democracy.
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