Court Finally Jab Queenslanders With a Dose of Justice

Commentary The wheels of justice often grind slowly. That was the case for frontline workers in Queensland who resisted the COVID jab and were consequently subjected to autocratic decrees by public service officialdom with a considerable number losing their livelihoods. For these workers, the judgment two years later by His Honour Justice Glenn Martin in Queensland’s Supreme Court must have been a huge relief. In a well-reasoned judgment, Justice Martin found that the public service had breached its human rights obligations as set out in the state’s own Human Rights Act. Queensland’s legislation is not replicated in other states, so its application to others who were victimised by bureaucratic bullies elsewhere can take little, if any, comfort from the ruling, other than a huge sense of vindication that their treatment was unreasonable and unfair....