The National Children's Commissioner Anne Hollonds has expressed alarm at the Queensland Government rushing through legislation to allow children to be detained indefinitely in adult detention facilities, in a further contravention of the Queensland Human Rights Act. Commissioner Hollonds said: "This latest action by the Queensland Government is not based on evidence and will not keep the community safer. "Under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a child should only be detained as a last resort, and for the shortest appropriate period of time.

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