An opinion poll of over 1,000 people across Australia found that 83 percent believed there should be a document that sets out in clear language the rights and responsibilities that everyone has here in Australia.

The Human Rights Law Centre and Castan Centre for Human Rights Law held this joint forum on Charting a Better Recovery on 20 May 2021.

The Human Rights Law Centre and UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion held this webinar on workers rights and human rights on 25 March 2021.

The Human Rights Law Centre and the UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion held the ‘Uncharterd: Health, Housing, Human Rights, and COVID-19’ forum on 28 October 2020.

The Australian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms campaign made a submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into the handling of the COVID-19 health crisis.

The COVID crisis has given us pause for thought about what kind of society we want to live in. It’s time to unite the community behind a bold and positive vision of a fairer Australia, writes the Human Rights Law Centre’s Tom Clarke.

Australia’s ranking in the World Press Freedom Index has fallen by five places, in the latest annual assessment from Reporters Without Borders, to 26th place.

The Australian Human Rights Commission are conducting a national consultation to find out what human rights issues are important for the community.

We lodged a submission calling for the creation of an Australian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

You’ve known it for some time, and we’ve known it for some time. Now it’s being confirmed by leading experts around the world; our rights and freedoms in Australia are slowly but surely being eroded by politicians like Scott Morrisson and Peter Dutton. We need to create an Australian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

Our friends at the Australian Human Rights Commission are conducting a national consultation to find out what human rights issues are important for the community.

“Australians would benefit greatly from a comprehensive human rights law to systematically protect all their rights,” the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet told a conference in Sydney this week.

On Monday 17 June Lee Carnie hosted a panel discussion with the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, Kristen Hilton, lawyer, Teela Reid and former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs, at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne about the need for an Australian Charter of Human Rights.

It was a shared love of protecting human rights that brought hundreds of people together from across regional Victoria, to spend their Valentine’s Day in a packed hall at the Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre.

The Human Rights Law Centre’s executive director, Hugh de Kretser, will be delivering RMIT’s 2018 Higinbotham Lecture in Melbourne on Thursday 20 September.