This policy brief analyses trends in the working and monitoring of delegated legislation in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom during the pandemic. It focuses on how the pandemic has affected parliamentary oversight of executive actions and assesses how institutional responses have conformed to democratic standards.

The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020 was introduced in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in November 2020. The Bill seeks to introduce new criminal offences relating to change or suppression practices.

The Australian Environment Minister appointed Professor Graeme Samuel AC to conduct this Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act) 1999 in October 2019. This is the final report of the review.

This report describes the key elements of the legislative framework affecting people with disability. It covers State, Territory and Commonwealth laws that apply specifically to people with disability, as well as laws of general application which apply differentially to people with disability in important respects.

Australia should enact a world-leading law to apply targeted sanctions to perpetrators of serious human rights abuse and corruption, according to this report. The report follows a wide-ranging inquiry which commenced in 2019, and incorporates submissions from over 160 individuals and organisations from around the world.