The undersigned organisations, human rights groups, and defenders are calling for the Indonesian Government to end its judicial harassment against prominent human rights defenders, Fatia Maulidiyanti and Haris Azhar as well as to further protect all human rights defenders in the country.

New polling has found that Australians believe the government is prioritising the views of big business over ordinary people and want the Albanese Government to close secret donation loopholes.

Kumanjayi Walker’s family are a step closer to the truth behind his death, after Coroner Armitage yesterday dismissed a request from former Constable Zachary Rolfe to remove  herself from the inquest.

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, said the Human Rights Law Centre.

NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Human Rights Law Centre and Australian Democracy Networkare deeply concerned about the heavy-handed police repression of a peaceful protest nearPort Botany.

The Human Rights Law Centre and Australian Democracy Network have today called for governments across Australia to adhere to international standards and human rights law to ensure protest rights are protected in the Declaration of Our Right to Protest.

Civil society groups have raised concerns about the democratic impact of the prosecution of David McBride, after the Afghan Files whistleblower pleaded guilty to three charges. 

The Albanese Government must not proceed with knee-jerk, rushed legislation which continues to curtail people’s right to freedom after the High Court decision in NZYQ, the Human Rights Law Centre and Asylum Seeker Resource Centre said today.

The Human Rights Law Centre today welcomed Monique Ryan’s Lobbying (Improving Government Honesty and Trust) Bill 2023 as the most ambitious proposal to regulate lobbying put before federal parliament in decades.  

The prosecution of war crimes whistleblower David McBride will deter whistleblowers and undermine press freedom, a coalition of civil society groups and unions have said on the opening day of McBride’s trial.

The High Court has today ruled that it is unlawful and unconstitutional for the Australian Government to detain people indefinitely in immigration detention. The Human Rights Law Centre and UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law appeared as amici curiae – friends of the court – to successfully argue that detention is unlawful for any person the Government is unlikely to remove in the foreseeable future.