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2025 Federal Election Platform

The Human Rights Law Centre calls on all parties and independents at the 2025 Federal Election to put human rights at the heart of government decision making and improve the dignity, equality, and fair access to justice for all people in Australia.

Landmark investigation into former Rio Tinto Panguna mine confirms major environmental damage and life-threatening risks to communities

The Human Rights Law Centre is working with communities in Bougainville to seek justice for the environmental devastation left by Rio Tinto’s former Panguna mine. A major independent investigation, the Panguna Mine Legacy Impact Assessment has been released today and confirms what communities have said for decades: they are living with an environmental and human rights disaster.

Reports, NewsThomas Feng6 December 2024Climate & Environmental Justice, Corporate Accountability

We can't fix the climate without fixing our democracy

At the election, Australians told its leaders two things: we want decisive action to help stop the climate crisis, and greater integrity in our political system. With the most progressive Parliament seen in decades, there is now a once-in-a-generation opportunity to achieve both.

Australia: how Bob Brown challenged Tasmania's anti-protest laws

It was not Bob Brown’s first arrest, but it’s probably the one he’ll remember best.

CommentaryMichelleBennett18 December 2017Democratic Freedoms, Climate & Environmental Justice

Attacks on environmental advocacy are part of a disturbing undemocratic trend

Attacks on environmental groups are part of an unmistakable broader trend of governments eroding many of the vital foundations our democracy, writes the HRLC's Hugh de Kretser.

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