This is the third report released in a multi-year collaborative project evaluating company responses to Australia's modern slavery reporting regime. It follows earlier reports 'Broken promises' and 'Paper promises'.

Australia has strong sense of human rights and freedoms, but the basic human rights of Australian people are not very well protected in Australian law. The Australian Human Rights Commission has developed a model for what a national Human Rights Act might look like, how it could function, and what it would do.

The Brookings Center on Regulation and Markets Regulatory Tracker (“Reg Tracker”) provides background information and status updates on a curated selection of particularly important regulatory changes.

The Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs has published this report on its inquiry into community safety, support services and job opportunities in the Northern Territory. The report makes several recommendations to the Commonwealth and Northern Territory governments in the wake of the sunsetting of the Stronger Futures Act in 2022.

The Office of the Public Advocate reflects in this report on how guardianship can protect and promote the rights of people with disability, but also identifies concerning patterns of over-reliance on guardianship to fill service gaps, and service systems that operate in ways that do not adjust to the needs of people with disability.