

Basic Rights Queensland (BRQ) is a specialist community legal centre, providing free advice, advocacy and legal services across Queensland.
Our committed team support vulnerable people in matters relating to employment, Centrelink and discrimination.
We Provide
Help with Centrelink
We provide free information, advocacy and legal services on Social Security (Centrelink and Employment Services).
Discrimination Assistance
We provide support for you to understand and protect your rights and help resolve discrimination matters.
Working Women Qld
A free, confidential & supportive service designed to help vulnerable women seeking help with work-related matters.
Mental Health Legal Help
Legal support for people with mental health issues and referrals to specialist community legal services for mental health.
Where an issue has an impact on the broader community we may develop and conduct community education activities, and/or undertake research informing law reform projects where we advocate on behalf of the community.
- Basic Rights Queensland’s specialist services are accessible via freecall numbers from anywhere in Queensland.
- BRQ’s client work focuses on vulnerable and disadvantaged people:
- 55% of our clients are people with disability, including mental illness
- 97% of our clients are in very straitened financial circumstances
- 14% of our clients have no income at the time of contact
- Basic Rights Queensland’s social work services are offered to clients in need of brief counselling or linking in with local supports
- BRQ’s plain English factsheets support understanding of the law, how to access rights and any related responsibilities
- BRQ’s capacity-building training assists community, private sector and government workers to understand the law and how to assist their clients
- BRQ’s law reform activities arise from the client work; they focus on informing government of the impacts of laws and policies on vulnerable people and on offering positive alternatives
- BRQ has been operating for over 33 years with the support of volunteers, sponsors, donors and pro-bono assistance
Basic Rights Queensland: News
AI surveillance at work: do working women pay a higher price
Words by Eloise Dalton, Director of Working Women Queensland. Artificial intelligence is on the agenda at this week’s economic reform roundtable, given its potential to boost productivity. The debate is already lively with calls for less regulation to unlock productivity gains, contrasted with unions pressing for stronger protections for workers. In these conversations and … Read More
Read MoreSupreme Court success: Kallangur homeless residents protected in human rights injunction
Basic Rights Queensland are the lawyers for 11 Kallangur residents experiencing homelessness in a Supreme Court application. Today the applicants secured an injunction that restricts Moreton Bay Regional Council from acting on previous notices, and moving the applicants on from their camp, until a full hearing in December. The Honourable Justice Smith found the applicants … Read More
Read MoreSupreme Court halts ‘eviction’ at Moreton Bay homeless camp
Basic Rights Queensland welcomes two successful urgent court applications resulting in orders made by the Supreme Court of Queensland to temporarily stop the City of Moreton Bay from dismantling the homeless camp at Kallangur. The urgent injunctions were sought after serious concerns arose about planned compliance action at a camp in Kallangur. Despite ongoing legal … Read More
Read MoreIn 2023-24, Basic Rights Queensland helped 3,618 people access 10,998 services.
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