The Human Rights Law Centre has put forward recommendations to the 2025-26 federal budget submissions across a range of issues, including campaigning for an Australian Human Rights Act, migration justice, prisoners’ rights, whistleblower protection and modern slavery.

The Human Rights Law Centre is calling for stronger safeguards for the right to privacy and warned that these powers enable the AFP and ACIC to undertake significant invasions of privacy, encroach on the right to privacy, and threaten to have a chilling effect on the work of journalists and their sources.  

In a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights’ inquiry into antisemitism on Australian university campuses, the Human Rights Law Centre has called for reforms that uphold Australia's commitment to international human rights standards, fostering a society that respects equality, freedom, and justice for all.

Change the Record and the Human Rights Law Centre strongly condemn the Crisafulli Government’s laws to lock up even more children in Queensland’s overcrowded and unsafe police watch houses and youth prisons. The laws will disproportionately imprison Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, and children with disabilities.

The Human Rights Law Centre supports the Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024 as a first step, but calls the Albanese Government to widen reforms to address the growing threat of hate speech, discrimination and vilification.

The Human Rights Law Centre has recommended that the Albanese Government’s social media ban for children aged 16 and under not be passed.

The Albanese Government's brutal deportation and surveillance laws must be stopped . The Migration Amendment Bill 2024 (Cth) (Bill) seeks to drastically expand the Federal Government’s powers to monitor, detain and deport people who are not Australian citizens, by allowing it to warehouse people in third countries, reverse protection findings made for refugees, and continue imposing punitive visa conditions on those who remain here.

The Human Rights Law Centre’s submission to the Inquiry into the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 calls for comprehensive comprehensive, human rights-informed legislation that holds big tech accountable for the spread of harmful misinformation and disinformation.

This joint submission by the Human Rights Law Centre and Change the Record to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee is made in response to the Committee’s inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system.

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.

In a submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs, the Human Rights Law Centre has called on the Albanese Government to strengthen whistleblower protections in the aged care sector and pursue a consistent, harmonised approach to federal whistleblower laws, including a single Whistleblower Protection Act.

In a submission to the NSW Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, the Human Rights Law Centre has called on the Minns Government to lower the voting age to 16 and make voting more accessible for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, people in prisons, and young people.