A joint submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, to support preparations for Australia’s seventh periodic review of its human rights performance under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). It outlines a number of detention-related issues relevant to the Committee’s consideration of Australia’s implementation of the ICCPR, reflecting key concerns.

The Mandatory Disease Testing Act is intended to protect the health of government employees through mandatory blood testing of a person whose bodily fluids have come into contact with a worker. This report finds the Act has failed to improve the wellbeing of workers, while providing insufficient protection for third parties, in particular Aboriginal and...

This report summarises the findings of the inquiry into the Bill, which aims to address legal and operational challenges in Australia's migration system concerning the removal of non-citizens. The committee recommends that the Senate pass the Bill, accepting that the proposed measures are necessary to maintain the integrity of the migration system.

Australians don’t always talk a lot about the ideals of democracy, but democracy is deeply embedded in Australian ways of life. This report invites Australians to reflect on our ​democracy – to recognise and celebrate its strengths, to acknowledge its vulnerabilities, and to join with common purpose and democratic spirit in our continuing traditions of...

The right to protest is fundamental to Australia's democracy. This report analyses and compiles every single bill across Australia over the last two decades which has impacted upon the right to protest, and finds that people’s ability to come together freely and peacefully to speak out on issues they care about is being steadily eroded.