After filing the case on Friday evening, Western Australia Police agreed on Sunday to allow Ms Lane-Rose to enter the event ...
During the time it operated from 1972 to 1989, close to a billion tonnes of mine waste were released directly into local river systems, causing profound environmental, social and cultural impacts. An ...
The Human Rights Law Centre acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands across Australia, including the lands of the Wurundjeri, Boon Wurrung, Gadigal, Ngunnawal, Cammeraygal, Darug, Wadawurrung, ...
After 15 years of operation, key laws sustaining the discriminatory Northern Territory Intervention will end on Sunday. The Intervention laws, which suspended the operation of the Racial ...
The High Court of Australia demonstrated its reluctance to uphold entitlements to confidentiality and privilege where there are egregious breaches of one’s right to a fair trial and legal professional ...
The Full Family Court of Australia has held that Stage 2 hormone treatment for transgender young people does not require the court’s authorisation. Court intervention will remain necessary where there ...
In a landmark ruling, the High Court has set an important precedent that the Commonwealth is liable to pay compensation to First Nations Peoples if their native title rights have been compromised by ...
The Victorian Court of Appeal granted leave to appeal against the Supreme Court’s earlier decision that the directions at Barwon Prison that Dr Craig Minogue submit to random urine tests, and strip ...
On appeal, the New Zealand Supreme Court has found that laws setting the voting age for New Zealanders at 18 are inconsistent with the right to freedom from discrimination on the basis of age, as set ...
Everyone deserves a safe place to call home. Yet in many parts of Australia, climate-driven extreme heat is turning peoples’ homes into ovens. This is particularly true for renters and low-income ...
The High Court has today ruled that it is unlawful and unconstitutional for the Australian Government to detain people indefinitely in immigration detention. Nearly 20 years ago, the High Court upheld ...
On 9 April 2020, the Coroner handed down her findings in the inquest into the death of Ms Tanya Louise Day. Ms Day died after sustaining a serious head injury in a police cell on 22 December 2017. On ...