Topic: Fair Trial Rights

No.152 - 19 February 2012 Guantanamo: 10 Years at Sea (Observer Interview)

Fair Trial Rights / Features / Interviews / Prisoners' Rights / Right to Life / (Leave a comment)

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

No.146 This Week’s Human Rights News

Asylum Seekers / Bill of Rights / Employment Rights / Fair Trial Rights / Indigenous People / International Affairs / News / Race & Discrimination / Women / (Leave a comment)

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

No.141 This Week’s Human Rights News

Asylum Seekers / Children & Youth / Disability / Fair Trial Rights / Indigenous People / News / (2 Comments)

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

No.139 This Week’s Human Rights News

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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

No.136 This Week’s Human Rights News

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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

No.84 High Court Case on Deportation

Case/Legislation Reports / Fair Trial Rights / International Affairs / News / (1 Comment)

5 September 2011 In Moti v The Queen [2011] the High Court is currently examining whether the Australian Government was complicit in aiding the deportation ... Read More

No.81 Editorial: Blind Justice

Editorials / Fair Trial Rights / Prisoners' Rights / Voting Rights / (Leave a comment)

A recent survey by the Sentencing Advisory Council has found that two thirds of respondents felt that judges are out of touch with society. In ... Read More

No.74 Panel – Mission Accomplished? The death of Osama Bin Laden

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On Wednesday 20 July, the Monash University Alumni Speaker Series presented a panel entitled “Mission Accomplished? The death of Osama Bin Laden and what it ... Read More