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Hands Off Our Charities oppose Government regulations to deregister charities

The implications of the proposed regulations, which significantly broaden the scope of activities for which charities can be deregistered, will be felt by virtually every one of the 58,000 charities registered in Australia. The proposal is a major overreach and the need for further regulation has not been (and in our view cannot be) properly explained. No obvious benefit will accrue, yet there is a significant cost to charities and, by extension, Australian civil society.

The Hands of Our Charities alliance joint submission to the Treasury on the Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Commission Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Regulations 2021 can be found here.

Submissions | 16 MAY 2025

Joint submission against expansion of the Making Queensland Safer Act 2024

The Human Rights Law Centre and Change the Record have are strongly opposed to the Crisafulli Government's laws that will sentence even more children to adult-length terms of imprisonment. The laws will lock up children for even longer, and harm kids, families, and communities.

Submissions | 13 MAR 2025

Submission to 2025-26 Federal Budget consultation

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.

Submissions | 18 FEB 2025

Submission to Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Act 2021 review

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.

Acknowledgement of Country

The Human Rights Law Centre acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands across Australia, including the lands of the Wurundjeri, Boon Wurrung, Gadigal, Ngunnawal, Cammeraygal, Darug, Wadawurrung, Turrbal and Jagera people where we work from.

We pay our respect to Elders past and present. This land always was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

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