Human Rights Make a Brief Appearance in ‘Bombshell’ COVID-19 Vaccine Ruling

The other day, I received multiple excitable alerts from many sources telling me about a “bombshell” judgment from the Queensland Supreme Court.

Around 85 police and ambulance workers filed three suits against vaccination mandates issued in 2021-22.

For the first time in Australia, a court has ruled mandatory COVID vaccination unlawful. And on human rights grounds too.

Since from the earliest days, I had vigorously opposed COVID restrictions, most strongly on human rights and civil liberties grounds, I decided to check it out. While the judgment is pleasing, it’s not really all that exciting and deserves, at best, two cheers and not three.

This is so because the judgment (pdf) was essentially based on technical procedural lapses on the part of the police commissioner and the director-general (DG) of the Department of Health.

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