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- - - - Legal Affairs and Safety Committee inquire into and report back to the Legislative assembly
        
        b. the effectiveness of section 131A of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (the Act) and other existing Queensland laws responding to hate crimes
        
        a. the nature and extent of hate crimes and serious vilification in Queensland and whether there is evidence of increasing instances of serious vilification in Queensland
    - - Security and Counter-Terrorism
        Command and the First Nations and Multicultural Affairs Unit
      - 131A of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (the Act)
        
        Public Briefing - Inquiry into serious vilification and hate crimes transcript
        https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/LASC/2021/VilificationandHateCrimes/trns-PB-24May2021.pdf
        
        Whether proceedings are instituted involves consideration of whether there is sufficient evidence and whether the public interest requires a prosecution. The sufficiency of evidence test requires there to be more than a prima facie case and for a prosecution not to proceed if there is no reasonable prospect of conviction
        
        rarely used based on police data - only eight (8) offences
        
        it can be seen that over the past five years there has been a steady increase in such classifications. For example, in 2020 there were 30 per cent more recordings of the racial vilification category, with the number up to 158 from 114 in 2019.
        
        The Queensland Police Services also aware of the reports of increased experiences of racially based vilification occurring in the context of COVID-19
    - - 131A of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (the Act)
        
        only three (3) convictions since its commencement
        https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/LASC/2021/VilificationandHateCrimes/trns-PB-24May2021.pdf