18/08/2026
Qld Police Service - Class Action For Vaccine Mandates
This class action is for Police only. We are aware there are Qld Corrections, Teachers, and other Government Departments that were mandated. We will be considering these in due course. Any announcements will be on our page.
For Police:
Look at our website https://sibleylawyers.com.au/class-actions/qps/
for more information. There are some FAQs.
In essence:
Staff and Police (including anyone employed by QPS at the time such as Protective Services, Air Wing etc) who were vaccinated under duress are of course eligible. Anyone who refused to be vaccinated and was liable to be punished, even if they resigned to avoid it, are in the vaccine refusal group.
Many 1000s received the doses under duress. They were practically compelled, coerced, lacked free will because they would not have got the dose but for the direction, and did so under fear of being suspended without pay and terminated. To be in the vaccine coercion group, you do not need to have shown any objection to being vaccinated, or even said anything. It is enough that you were directed to do so, and but for the direction, would not have received a dose/s.
Anyone that refused to get a dose, even if they had received other doses (whether under duress or before the directions because they thought it was a good idea at the time), will be in the vaccine refusal group.
You can be in the vaccine refusal group and the vaccine coercion group, as you might have got one dose under duress, and then refused to get another, and then subjected to, or liable to punishment for refusing.
Many also sought a medical exemption and were refused. You can be in this group, but only if you went on to receive a dose/s under duress. You could realistically be in the medical exemption group and the vaccine refusal group and the vaccine coercion group. For example, if you got one dose under duress, then applied for and were refused an exemption, then got a vaccine under duress, you'd be in both. If after the second you refused to get the third, you'd also be in the vaccine refusal group. Tick the boxes that apply to yourcircumstances.
Some people seem to think they had to be employed for the entire time of the directions, ie from Sep 21 to Dec 22. That is not the case. You are a class member if you were subject to one or both of the Directives, and fall into one of the groups. You don't have to have been employed for the entire period of the directives, just subject to the directives. A lot of people were swiftly suspended without pay and then resigned under duress.
If you have any questions, email [email protected]
