As Australia enters a new electoral term with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese back at the helm, and world affairs in a state of turmoil, it is critical to ask whether human rights will get deserved ...

(Sydney, August 11, 2025) – Australia should press the Vietnamese government on human rights by seeking clear, concrete, and measurable benchmarks for progress, Human Rights Watch said today in a ...

Amy Maguire holds an Australian Research Council fellowship. Her industry partner is the Australian Human Rights Commission. That agenda should include substantive human rights reform. The government ...

Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any explanation in doing so. When it comes to swatting away scrutiny by ...

In a letter to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Monday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the re-elected Labour government to leverage its key foreign policies to strengthen human rights ...

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 ...

The Albanese government has achieved an historic re-election, substantially building its majority in the House of Representatives. Much has already been written about the potential for a more ...