Declaration of our right to protest
Every person has the right to have their voice heard, no matter the bank balance or political connection. But the right to protest in Australia is under significant and sustained attacks by governments and increasingly, the fossil fuel industry.
How you can help protect protest rights:
Signatories to the declaration:
- 350.org Australia
- Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia Limited
- ACTCOSS
- ActionAid Australia
- Aid/Watch
- Amnesty International Margaret River Group
- Amnesty International Australia
- Animal Liberation NSW
- Animal Liberation Queensland
- Animals Australia
- Australian Religious Response to Climate Change
- Asylum Seekers Centre NSW
- Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
- Australia Palestine Advocacy Network
- Australian Alliance for Animals
- Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility
- Australian Centre for International Justice
- Australian Conservation Foundation
- Australian Council of Social Service
- Australian Democracy Network
- Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
- Australian Marine Conservation Society
- Australian Muslim Advocacy Network
- Australian National Development Index
- Australian Services Union NSW ACT Services Branch
- Australian Services Union SA+NT Branch
- Australian Services Union Victoria
- Be Slavery Free
- Blue Mountains Peace Collective
- Bob Brown Foundation
- Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament
- Caxton Community Legal Centre
- Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University
- Centre for Innovative Justice
- Chuffed.org
- Citizens for a Liveable Melbourne
- Climate Action Burwood/Canada Bay
- Climate Action Network Australia
- Climate Justice Union
- Community Legal Centres Australia
- Community Legal Centres NSW
- Community Legal Centres Queensland
- Community Legal WA
- Conservation Council of SA
- Conservation Council of WA
- CounterAct
- Democracy Matters
- Digital Rights Watch
- Disrupt Burrup Hub
- Environment Council of Central Queensland
- Environment Victoria
- Environmental Defenders Office
- Environmental Justice Australia
- Equality Australia
- Extinction Rebellion ACT
- Extinction Rebellion Australia
- Extinction Rebellion NSW
- Extinction Rebellion Queensland
- Extinction Rebellion South Australia
- Extinction Rebellion Tasmania
- Extinction Rebellion Western Australia
- Federation of Community Legal Centres
- Flat Out Inc
- Friends of the Earth Australia
- Grata Fund
- Greenpeace Australia Pacific
- Human Rights Law Centre
- Human Rights Watch
- Humanists Victoria
- Illawarra Legal Centre
- Inner City Legal Centre
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Australia)
- Islamic Friendship Association of Australia Inc
- Knowmore
- Koala Action Inc
- Liberty Victoria
- Lock The Gate Alliance
- Mackay Conservation Group
- Mannifera
- March4Justice Australia
- Margaret River Regional Environment Centre
- Marrickville Peace Group
- Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia)
- Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church
- Monash University Climate Justice Clinic
- MoretonCAN
- National Justice Project
- NSW Council for Civil Liberties
- Parents for Climate
- Pax Christi Vic.
- Peacifica Peoples Climate Assembly
- Peoples Health Movement Australia
- Public Health Association of Australia
- Public Interest Advocacy Centre
- Quakers Australia
- Queensland Conservation Council
- Queensland Council for Civil Liberties
- Queensland Regional Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
- Redfern Legal Centre
- Rights Advocacy Project
- Rights Resource Network SA
- Rising Tide
- Rouser
- SCALES Community Legal Centre
- Sisters Inside
- South Australian Abortion Action Coalition
- South Australian Council of Social Service
- South Australian Rainbow Advocacy Alliance Inc
- Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies
- Tasmanian Council of Social Service
- The Australia Institute
- The Green Institute
- The Nature Conservation Council of NSW
- The Wilderness Society Tasmania
- Tomorrow Movement
- University of Melbourne Student Union
- Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
- Victorian Forest Alliance
- WA Forest Alliance
- WA Network of Alcohol and other Drug Agencies
- Wage Peace
- West Australian Council of Social Service
- Westside Community Lawyers
- Whitsunday Conservation Council
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom SA Branch
- WIRE World Animal Protection
- Young Labor Left
Acknowledgement of Country
The Human Rights Law Centre acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands across Australia, including the lands of the Wurundjeri, Boon Wurrung, Gadigal, Ngunnawal, Darug and Wadawurrung people where we work from.
We pay our respect to Elders past and present. This land always was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
WARNING: This site contains images or names of people who have passed away.