Queenslanders will have protections for 23 rights, such as freedom of expression, religion and privacy, and a right to education and health, after the Human Rights Bill passed last month.

The current Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland will be rebranded as the Queensland Human Rights Commission on July 1 this year, and the rights will come into effect on January 1, 2020.

Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Scott McDougall, who will become the new Human Rights Commissioner, said while it would not be in the thousands, he believed there would be "quite a few" complaints about human rights breaches.

"Because unlike the Victorian legislation, which resulted from Rob Hulls, the attorney-general really taking upon himself to champion the campaign within government, unlike that situation, in Queensland it's a grassroots campaign," he said, speaking at the Community Legal Centres Queensland conference.

The current Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland has 35 staff across four offices and last year already received 810 discrimination complaints — a 26 per cent increase in two years.

Mr McDougall said he expected education, health and disability complaints, including about NDIS providers, would feature heavily, in addition to any "closed environment", such as prisons, watch houses and state-run aged care homes.

"It's fundamental, if you're going to introduce a Human Rights Act, that the places which are not publicly available are going to be areas where the Human Rights Act is going to have to play a role in monitoring," he said.

Government departments could be swayed to make changes to benefit people who complain because the Commission will publish public reports on the outcomes of complaints.

"That I think is a lever that will influence outcomes," Mr McDougall said.

"If a respondent public entity is literally just not engaging properly in the process, there will be the risk of an adverse report being published by the Commission."

Human Rights Law Centre executive director Hugh de Kretser said the changes would build a human rights culture across all levels of government.

"The experience from Victoria, the ACT and overseas is that the biggest impact that a piece of legislation like this will have is in developing better laws, better policies and better services, and preventing human rights abuses from happening in the first place," he said.

Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath said the Human Rights Act would have a real, tangible benefit for Queenslanders, particularly those who experienced disadvantage and marginalisation.

The Human Rights Act protects: