Article by Maria O'Sullivan. Lens Monash University.
April 29, 2020.
Because this emergency is testing the limits of our human rights protections in Australia, it represents an opportunity to consider how our legal system functions when society is tested. And, in particular, what the operation of the COVID-19 laws say about how human rights are protected in Australia.
This article highlights one particular aspect of COVID-19 that demonstrates we require some rethinking about human rights protections in Australia – the recent debates about mobile phone tracing to assist in controlling the COVID-19 outbreak.
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