Aimee McVeigh is a human rights lawyer with experience working with Aboriginal women and children in both the Northern Territory and Queensland. She is currently involved in a campaign which is pushing the Labor government to legislate for a Human Rights Act, to act as a ‘safety net’ ensuring governments must consider the rights of all Queenslanders before it passes laws.
Labor has already committed to a parliamentary inquiry, and now Ms McVeigh says there is a real opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to push for certain rights – one of these rights is the right to self-determination, which Victoria is seriously considering including in its own human rights legislation.
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