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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreChange 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre has recommended that the Albanese Government’s social media ban for children aged 16 and under not be passed.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn a submission to Statutory Review of the Online Safety Act 2021, the Human Rights Law Centre has urged the Albanese Government to implement strong laws which protect people from the insidious harm caused by big tech platforms such as Meta, X, and Google.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre and the Australian Democracy Network’s submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Association calls for repealing harsh anti-protest laws, combating stigmatising narratives, and strengthening protections for protesters. These measures aim to safeguard the right to peaceful protest and ensure compliance with international human rights standards.
Read MoreIn a submission to the Senate Select Committee Inquiry on Adopting Artificial Intelligence, the Human Rights Law Centre recommended that Australia adopt a risk-based approach to AI regulation, grounded in international human rights law and principles.
Read MoreOn 27 March 2024, The Australian Government introduced changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, through the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No.1) Bill 2024. The Bill seeks to respond to concerns related to quality and safeguards, fraud and financial sustainability issues within the scheme.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre along with 10 civil society organisations have made a submission to the consultation on the ASX Corporate Governance Council Principles and Recommendations update.
Read MoreThe Human Rights Law Centre, Flatout and FIGJAM have put in a submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Inquiry into legal responses to sexual violence to call for the prohibition of strip searching
Read MoreIn submissions to the NSW Government’s inquiry into anti-protest laws, the Human Rights Law Centre called on the Minns Government to protect the right to peaceful protest and scrap draconian anti-protest laws.
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