The plan outlines how the Envoy will address antisemitism across education, law, digital spaces and community life. The framework is built around 13 interrelated focus areas, each critical to fostering safety, national unity and resilience. It advocates for a series of measures in order to confront antisemitism, including legislative reforms, institutional accountability, public education and...

Over recent years in Australia, governments and institutions have grappled with balancing the rights and freedoms of religious and LGBT citizens. Much of the debate has centred on the right of religious schools to discriminate against LGBT students and staff. Many religious school leaders argue that a social license to discriminate is underwritten by the...

The Australian Cooperative Election Survey (ACES) religion module was weighted by population characteristics to approximate representativeness of the Australian voting population. The module included 30 survey items on multiple of aspects religion, power, trust, gender and conspiracies in Australian political and public life. This report presents results and commentary on the survey.

This paper explores some of the compelling reasons for guaranteeing freedom of thought, conscience and religion, alongside the companion freedoms that support it, within a broad scheme of rights for everyone. It assesses Australia’s track record in meeting its obligations to guarantee that freedom and concludes that Australia trails behind much of the rest of...

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.