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.

The announcement this week that some ten thousand more frontline police and protective services officers (PSOs) in Victoria will be equipped with Tasers is very concerning, according to a coalition of Victorian legal and community services groups.

In light of an imminent military operation by the Israeli Defense Force in Rafah and the ongoing assault on Gaza, the Human Rights Law Centre has written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Minister Penny Wong, Minister Richard Marles and Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus KC with an urgent call for the Australian Government to use all efforts to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people. 

Former whistleblowers, experts and civil society groups are calling on the Albanese government to establish a Whistleblower Protection Authority as part of Australia’s integrity and regulatory landscape.

The Human Rights Law Centre and Migrant Justice Institute welcome legislation passed this week that is the first critical step to upholding migrant workers’ rights at work.  

In the wake of interim orders made by the International Court of Justice on 26 January 2024, the Human Rights Law Centre calls for the Australian Government to use all efforts to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people, including by supporting an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

Change the Record and the Human Rights Law Centre are calling on the Miles Government to overhaul the state’s outdated, punitive youth justice system and redirect funding towards a future where no child grows up in a prison cell.

South Australian community services, human rights advocates and First Nations organisations are calling on the Malinauskas Government to raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14.

The Human Rights Law Centre has called on the Albanese Government to strengthen the powers of its new proposed Anti-Slavery Commissioner to enable the role to more effectively tackle modern slavery.