This report was written in collaboration with human rights experts across Australia, and it represents the collective knowledge of Australia’s leading NGOs on the current state of human rights in Australia and will inform the four yearly review of Australia’s human rights record by the UN Human Rights Council.

The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) calls on governments to do everything in their power to prevent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody due to COVID-19.

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) presented this report to the United Nations Subcommittee Prevention of Torture informed by experience and knowledge of the treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in places of detention around Australia.

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services' (NATSILS) submission to the Australian Government’s commitment to establish the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.

The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) and Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) write to oppose the expansion of the cashless debit card trials set out in the Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019.