Topic: International Affairs

17 February 2012 Report detailing raid that killed five Afghani children is suppressed by Defence Department The Age has reported that Australia’s Defence Minister, Stephen ... 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

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

29 December 2011 Australian senator meets with Swedish officials to protect Assange’s human rights Australian Greens senator Scott Ludlam has met with Swedish officials to ... Read More

In a time of rapid change, human rights continue to be a central concern in Asia. … the governments of Australia, America and Europe have ... Read More

24 December 2011 Robert Manne encourages self-scrutiny on asylum seeker policy The recent sinking of a fishing boat that was carrying asylum seekers to Australia ... Read More

8 December 2011 Labor Party to support gay marriage The Australian Labor Party has made an historic vote to change its platform to support gay ... Read More

On 28 November 2011, Jeffrey L. Bleich, the current US Ambassador to Australia, presented the annual Nathan and Pamela Jacobson Public Lecture at the University ... Read More

Each year a leader in the field of human rights presents a lecture jointly hosted by Monash University’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and ... Read More

The idea of “home” hosts many metaphors. Home is our “haven”, “sanctuary”, “nest”, “refuge” and “escape”. Home is our “domain”, “habitat”, “kingdom” and “abode”. At ... Read More