This article is part of our December theme, which focuses on one of the least appreciated but most fundamental aspects of well-being: housing. Read our Editorial for more on this theme. Relative to international standards, Australia’s economic and political freedoms rank highly. Our standard of living is generally satisfactory. A nation of just 22 million […]
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 Mallesons Stephen Jaques. The speaker for 2011 was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially in women and children, Ms Joy Ngozi Ezeilo. Ms Ezeilo is in […]
This article is part of our December theme, which focuses on one of the least appreciated but most fundamental aspects of well-being: housing. Read our Editorial for more on this theme. Patrick is a 58 year old man who has been an involuntary in-patient in a psychiatric hospital for over seven years. He has received […]
This article is part of our December theme, which focuses on one of the least appreciated but most fundamental aspects of well-being: housing. Read our Editorial for more on this theme. It was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of the old year, and the snow was falling fast. In the cold […]
This article is part of our December theme, which focuses on one of the least appreciated but most fundamental aspects of well-being: housing. Read our Editorial for more on this theme. The problem of elder abuse has come to be more clearly known through the efforts of many over the last 10 to 15 years. […]
Our December 2011 content focuses one of the least appreciated but most fundamental aspects of well-being: housing. Henrietta Zeffert sets the scene by illuminating the meaning of a right to housing in the legal sense and the integral place of the home in lived experience, in The Home in Human Rights. Ellena Savage continues the […]
A free public forum held by a coalition of organisations, including the Federation of Community Legal Centres Victoria (FCLC), Flat Out, the Centre for the Human Rights of Imprisoned People (CHRIP), Inside Access, and Smart Justice, offered perspectives on Victoria’s prison system from diverse speakers. The forum took place in the wake of the Baillieu […]
The Visioning Justice radio documentary project was recently launched at the Arena Project Space. Magistrate Pauline Spencer officially opened the launch, with performances by Still Waters Black Women’s Storytelling Collective and presentations of documentaries produced by the project’s participants. Funded through the Legal Services Board Grants Program, Visioning Justice is the culmination of many years’ […]
Mark Holcroft’s fatal heart attack in a prisoner transport van on 27 August, 2009 highlights the widespread flaws and reluctance for reform in the Australian correctional system. The results of an inquest by NSW State Coroner Paul McMahon were released in August of this year, identifying multiple failures by NSW Correctional Services and making a […]
This article was first published on the Castan Centre’s blog. You can access the blog here for more great articles on human rights law. A shorter form of this article was also published in The Conversation. You can also read Blink, a short story inspired by the Occupy Melbourne eviction. I received a text message […]
Blink is a short story inspired by the recent eviction of Occupy Melbourne from City Square. Click here to read an eyewitness account of the eviction by our Editor-in-Chief, Andre Dao, with an accompanying photo gallery. Adam didn’t blink from the high pitched screams. His eye simply pressed harder against the viewfinder, making sure the […]
The Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH) held its second annual Law and Social Change Dialogue on Thursday 25 August at the State Library of Victoria. Friday 26 August 2011 marked 10 years since the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa came to the aid of a group of asylum seekers, mainly of Afghani background, whose boat […]
