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Queensland Human Rights Commission flooded with inquiries due to Covid border confusion

Commissioner says lack of detail has ‘created a vacuum where misinformation is able to be spread’

The Queensland human rights commissioner, Scott McDougall, says the commission has received a spike in inquiries due to confusion about the state’s Covid border rules.

McDougall said that in the past few weeks, since the Queensland government announced its plans to reopen the state border, more than a third of inquiries had been about Covid issues as a lack of detail had “created a vacuum where misinformation is able to be spread”.

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