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UNBELIEVABLE: Qld to allow mental health patient checks | History Defined

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Queensland law is being changed to allow UN inspectors access to mental health patients in custody. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

United Nations inspectors will soon be able to visit mental health patients being detained in Queensland facilities as the state government acts on a pledge to change laws in the final sitting week of the year.

The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture suspended a tour of Australia's detention facilities in October, saying Queensland and NSW had not co-operated with its delegation.

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