Topic: Fair Trial Rights

13 April 2012 Sentencing Advisory Council releases report on sentencing children and young people in Victoria The Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council has released a report ... Read More

16 March 2012 Baillieu Government retains Human Rights Charter After being deeply split on the future of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights, the Baillieu ... Read More

8 March 2012 Australia’s Peak Public Health Body announces opposition to Stronger Futures Bill The Public Health Association of Australia has announced its opposition to ... Read More

1 March 2012 Commonwealth Attorney-General moves to increase oversight of places of detention The Australian Human Rights Commission has welcomed Australia’s progress towards ratifying and ... Read More

24 February 2012 ASIO accused of bullying and harassment towards members of Muslim community ASIO have been accused of using heavy-handed tactics to communicate with ... Read More

This article is part of our February theme, which focuses on one of the great silences in the human rights conversation in Australia: Prisoners’ Rights. ... Read More

9 February 2012 Australian Lawyer’s Alliance warns of risk of increase in Indigenous incarceration rates The Australian Lawyers alliance has warned that high incarceration rates ... Read More

2 February 2012 Alarming increase in detention rates among young Indigenous people Yesterday, Greens Senator Penny Wright drew attention to the alarming increase in the ... Read More

26 January 2012 Tent Embassy 40th Anniversary Demonstrations Australia Day this year marked the 40th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. Tent embassy was founded ... Read More

12 January 2012 Marlon Noble to be released from WA Prison Marlon Noble, a mentally impaired West Australian man, is to be released after spending ... Read More