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Queensland's Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk is under pressure for the state's decision to suspend its own Human Rights Act to allow police watch houses to be used as youth detention
centres. One of Queensland's most respected legal figures entered the debate today, calling on both sides of politics to end what she called the "race to the bottom" on youth justice.
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