A national coalition of over 40 community legal centres, unions, business groups, and faith, welfare and human rights organisations welcome the federal government’s introduction of groundbreaking reforms to reduce widespread migrant worker exploitation.

Eleven years after former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced the introduction of mandatory offshore processing, the Albanese Government must change course and provide thousands of people who have suffered for over a decade dignity, safety and freedom, said the Human Rights Law Centre today.

With the rising influence of fossil fuel industries over Australian politics, the Human Rights Law Centre has launched the Climate and Environmental Whistleblowing Information Guide, a practical resource to support any person to raise concerns about climate and environmental wrongdoing in Australia.

The Human Rights Law Centre has written to Vice-Chancellors at four Victorian universities to urge them to drop threats of disciplinary action against students for peacefully protesting on campuses.

Governments across Australia must repeal anti-protest laws and introduce reforms which protect protest, the Human Rights Law Centre said on release of a new report, Protest in Peril.

The Human Rights Law Centre has welcomed the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor’s recommendations to better balance secrecy and transparency under federal law, and called on the Albanese Government to enact the proposed reform.

The Human Rights Law Centre has urged the Albanese Government to take decisive action to protect current and future children from the existential impacts of the climate crisis after a Labor-dominated Senate Committee failed to listen to the voices of children, climate scientists and health experts calling for a legislated duty of care.  

The Albanese Government should underpin artificial intelligence laws in human rights principles to protect people from exploitation and ensure advances and uses of AI benefit the wider community.

The Albanese Government must urgently reform whistleblower protection laws and establish a whistleblower protection authority after tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle’s appeal was dismissed.

The Human Rights Law Centre has called on the Allan Government to be brave in transforming Victoria’s youth justice system, with the Youth Justice Bill 2024 introduced into the Victorian Parliament.

A coalition of 104 civil society organisations have welcomed the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights call for an Australian Human Rights Act as an important step forward towards a fairer, more compassionate Australia.

The family of Warlpiri and Luritja teenager Kumanjayi Walker are calling for truth, accountability and justice, after the coronial inquest into the police shooting death of Kumanjayi concluded its evidence yesterday.