Australia’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report on Thursday calling for establishing a federal human rights act. The recommendation is the result of the committee’s ...

Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Australia is the only Western democracy that does not have a national Human Rights Act, but this may be about to change ...

Last week, a 17-year-old boy died by self-harm in his cell at Banksia Hill Detention Centre in Western Australia. This tragic event was the second death of a child within the state’s youth detention ...

A delegation of United Nations inspectors have raised the alarm about Australia's treatment of children, First Nations people, people with disability and migrants in detention. The UN Working Group on ...

(Bangkok) – The Australian government’s progress on human rights over the past year was undermined by continued abuses against refugees and asylum seekers, Human Rights Watch said today in its World ...

A ‘tough on crime’ political culture tends to bring the same solution to every crisis: harsher laws. That’s a problem. When media reports emerged earlier this year about a new youth “crime wave” of ...

It was a landmark victory in late 2023 when the UN Human Rights Committee found in favour of the Wunna Nyiyaparli people that Australia had breached its international human rights obligations by ...

David Birchall is Deputy Director of the B&HR Access to Justice Lab at Macquarie Law School. Ebony Birchall is the Deputy Director of the B&HR Access to Justice Lab at Macquarie University. She has ...

Anthony Albanese’s historic visit to China last month — the first by an Australian prime minister since 2016 — has widely been heralded as a turning point in the bilateral relationship. But ...

Persons with disabilities must be full participants of the public bodies and procedures by which both general and disability specific laws and policies are created. They should be fully represented in ...