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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Read MoreIn 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.
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The Human Rights Law Centre and Asylum Seeker Resource Centre have condemned the Albanese Government’s proposed introduction of a preventive detention regime that would create a parallel legal system allowing migrants and refugees to be imprisoned on the basis of what they might do in the future.
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The Human Rights Law Centre is calling for the ACT Government to strengthen its proposal to add the right to a healthy environment to the Human Rights Act 2004.
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The Human Rights Law Centre has welcomed recommendations by an independent review into the law that enabled the prosecutions of Witness J, Witness K and Bernard Collaery to be shrouded in secrecy, and called on the Attorney-General to urgently implement the review's findings.
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Ned Kelly Emeralds, an Iranian man who has been detained for over a decade while seeking asylum, has won his challenge against his ongoing detention. Ned’s case is the first to be heard since the High Court recently ruled that indefinite detention was unlawful.
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A joint statement signed by over 100 health, legal, social, community services providers, advocates and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Organisations today reiterated calls for Attorneys-General to stop jailing 10 year old children and raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14 years old, with no exceptions.
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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.
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