Naming Brisbane women risks 'a second wave of Covid-related racial hostility’: commission

Others who have breached restrictions have not been identified and doing so creates potential for harm', human rights commissioner says

The Queensland Human Rights Commission has been contacted by members of Brisbane's African migrant communities who say they have experienced a backlash to media stories naming and shaming young women accused of breaching coronavirus restrictions.

Multiple media outlets - including the ABC, Courier Mail, Herald Sun, Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, Brisbane Times, Daily Mail and commercial television outlets - named two of the women and published photographs taken from their social media accounts.