The Albanese Government is being urged to introduce new laws which would stop powerful corporations misusing Australia’s legal system to silence and intimidate community voices, by a coalition of 85 environmental, faith, community legal and human rights organisations.

The Human Rights Law Centre welcomes consultation from the Victorian Government on legislation to restrict the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) in workplace sexual harassment matters. 

As a twenty-four-hour protest led by refugees reaches 100 days, the Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Albanese Government to provide permanent visas to the 8,500 people who have been stuck in visa uncertainty and limbo for the last 12 years.

The Human Rights Law Centre has condemned harsh new laws rushed through by the NT Government that will jail 10 year old children again. The laws, passed in the first parliamentary sitting week of the new government, will take the Northern Territory backwards and threaten a dangerous precedent for children’s rights and safety nationwide.  

For 94 days refugee community members and activists, together with their allies, have camped in front of government offices demanding visa equality for people failed by the former Coalition Government’s broken ‘fast track’ refugee processing system. After a decade of limbo, they are calling for permanent visas to ensure safe futures for themselves and their families.  

Communities living with the ongoing devastation from Rio Tinto’s former Panguna mine in Bougainville are calling on the company to commit to funding remediation and long-term solutions, after the initial results of a major independent environmental and human rights impact assessment of the mine undertaken by Tetra Tech Coffey were presented back to communities.

As the war in Israel and Palestine enters its second year and spreads throughout the surrounding region, the Human Rights Law Centre mourns the unthinkable scale of destruction and loss of life.

The Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Albanese Government to step in and stop big tech regulating itself to combat the misinformation and disinformation poisoning Australia’s democracy, as part of a new report: Rights-First: Principles for Digital Platform Regulation. 

The Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the NSW Police Commissioner to drop Supreme Court applications which could stop people gathering peacefully for a pro-Palestinian rally and candlelight vigil. 

The Human Rights Law Centre will appear before a Parliamentary Inquiry today to call on the Minns Government to make voting more accessible and lower the voting age to 16 for state elections.

The ACT Parliament’s passage of legislation enshrining the right to a healthy environment is a watershed moment in human rights and environmental law in Australia, according to the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) and the Human Rights Law Centre.

The Human Rights Law Centre says the Allan Government has missed an opportunity to get youth justice reform right, after the Victorian Parliament passed the Youth Justice Bill.