Human Rights
A proposal from the Indonesian government to conduct a new registration of internally-displaced Papuans across their conflict-affected territory has been condemned by the West Papua National Committee...
Senator Lidia Thorpe has introduced bills to Federal Parliament to end two harmful practices in criminal legal systems across Australia: the strip searching of children and the shackling of people dur...
Senator Lidia Thorpe and the Greens are the latest to call for a controversial Victorian amendment that would mean prisoners are no longer guaranteed daily access to fresh air to be scrapped.
A new campaign calling for enforceable national minimum standards to protect the human rights of children in custody has been launched. Coming in the wake of Closing the Gap data showing the rate of I...
Prisoners in Victoria will no longer be guaranteed daily access to fresh air after legislation allowing prisons to deny outdoor access due to "operational considerations" passed the state's lower hous...
If the Northern Territory Government really cares about children, it has an interesting way of showing it. This week, the Country Liberal Party (CLP)-led parliamentary committee ignored evidence and e...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article contains the names of deceased Indigenous people. Author's note: We have consulted directly with Shandell Pryor's family befo...
More Indigenous law graduates will be able to access the support they need to make the transition to legal practice with the establishment of a new foundation by Australia's largest legal membership b...
A delegation of Aboriginal women from Western Australia's Kimberley region is travelling to Geneva on Wednesday, determined to champion the rights of Indigenous women and girls on the world stage.
NAIDOC's origins belong inside a longer history of Aboriginal resistance to the economic architecture of colonial Australia. It emerged from Aboriginal protest against colonisation that had taken land...
Marninwarntikura Women's Resource Centre, based in Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia's Kimberley region, has welcomed the announcement regional court sittings will resume almost a month earlier th...
Australia's response to international scrutiny of its human rights record has been condemned by Indigenous legal advocates, who say the federal government is ignoring mounting evidence of systemic rac...
On Wednesday, July 8, the Northern Territory Legislative Scrutiny Committee will table its final report on the Care and Protection of Children Legislation Amendment (Every Child Matters) Bill 2026 (NT...