The Human Rights Law Centre is appearing before the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor to call for Australia’s national secrecy laws to be improved to encourage transparency and accountability.

A coalition of 41 human rights advocates, unions, faith groups and academics have called on the Albanese Government to address major issues with Australia’s Modern Slavery Act and the proposed new Anti-Slavery Commissioner role.

The Allan Government’s gutless backflip on changes to youth bail laws will harm generations of Victorian children, and keep children needlessly locked up away behind bars in pre-trial detention.

The Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Albanese Government to end the offshore detention regime, and evacuate all those who are still offshore to Australia, as the coronial inquest into the death of Faysal Ishak Ahmed begins today.

In a joint submission, the #OurDemocracy alliance are calling on the Albanese Government to overhaul lobbying laws and ensure our politicians are accountable to the people, not big industries.

Australia’s national secrecy laws should be recalibrated to encourage transparency and accountability in the public interest.

The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and the Human Rights Law Centre are calling on the Albanese Government to act on age pension discrimination, after the High Court today declined to hear an appeal in the legal challenge seeking equal access to the age pension for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.  

The Human Rights Law Centre has called on the South Australian Parliament to legislate a Human Rights Act, which would benefit the lives of every person in South Australia.

A legislated duty of care to current and future Australian children would positively accelerate the Australian Government’s action to tackle climate change and create a fairer and more sustainable future, the Human Rights Law Centre will tell a Senate committee in evidence today.  

Too many people, especially children, do not have full access to their right to education, according to the Right to Education in Australia report, authored by the University of Newcastle’s Centre for Law and Social Justice in collaboration with the Human Rights Law Centre.

Following many delays, the coronial inquest into the police shooting death of Warlpiri and Luritja teenager Kumanjayi Walker is set to recommence on 22 February 2024 to hear from the last two witnesses - former NT police officer Zachary Rolfe and Sergeant Lee Bauwens. 

The Human Rights Law Centre will today urge the Albanese Government to strengthen the powers of its new proposed Anti-Slavery Commissioner in evidence given to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs.