Today, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan responded to the Yoorrook for Justice report. Prepared by the first formal truth-telling process into injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria, the Yoorrook for Justice report made 46 recommendations for crucial change of the state’s legal system. 

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Human Rights Law Centre and Democracy in Colour have denounced the Albanese Government’s rushed law that would further punish people who have been unlawfully held in indefinite immigration detention.

The High Court is set to hear a challenge in April to the Australian Government’s continued detention of people who cannot be forced to return to their country of citizenship.

The Human Rights Law Centre today urged the Victorian Government to reject any proposal that would require protesters to obtain a permit to peacefully gather and demand change on issues they care about.

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.