Safe access zones are now one step closer to becoming law in Western Australia after members of the WA Legislative Assembly voted in favour of the Public Health Amendment (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2021 on Thursday.

Today the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights will hear evidence into the Morrison Government’s punitive ParentsNext program, which makes life harder for mums with young children.

The Human Rights Law Centre has expressed deep concern following the sentencing of Witness K, who blew the whistle by revealing that Australian spies had bugged the cabinet office of Timor-Leste to gain an upper hand in commercial negotiations over natural resources – oil and gas – that sit beneath the Timor Sea in 2004.

The undersigned members of the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) join the urgent international call for universal, equitable and affordable access to COVID-19 vaccines, particularly in the context of the stark inequality in the global distribution of the vaccines already produced and ordered.

The Human Rights Law Centre has welcomed a Senate Committee report recommending a ban on the importation of any goods produced with forced labour into Australia.

The Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Berejiklian Government to ban the routine strip searching of young people in NSW prisons following a damning report by the NSW Ombudsman.

The Human Rights Law Centre is calling for the introduction of legislated minimum standards of openness in Australia’s legal system to prevent trials taking place in secret.

The Australian government’s visa laws are devastating families and keeping parents away from their children for years, a Senate Committee inquiry has been told. The landmark inquiry into the Morrison government’s family migration policies has received evidence from legal experts and people separated from their families, which show a broken system in urgent need of reform.

In an unusual move, 48 organisations have today publicly released their submissions to the Council of Attorneys-General working group on raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Australia from 10 years old.

The Human Rights Law Centre has slammed punitive new laws passed by the Gunner government in the Northern Territory late last night.

The Human Rights Law Centre joined the urgent international call with the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) for universal, equitable and affordable access to COVID-19 vaccines, particularly in the context of the stark inequality in the global distribution of the vaccines already produced and ordered.