New online surveillance laws proposed by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton are dangerous, undemocratic and go far beyond what could be considered necessary and proportionate, the Human Rights Law Centre will tell a parliamentary inquiry today.

Today, the Federal Government confirmed the Minister for Home Affairs has chartered a flight to return refugees and asylum seekers to offshore detention on Nauru in a worrying development the Time For A Home coalition said highlighted the Government’s continued failure to provide a solution for the people it has held for 8 years.

After a long campaign by reproductive rights advocates, abortion will finally be decriminalised in South Australia. The Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2020 was passed by the South Australian upper house today and will remove many barriers to accessing abortion care in South Australia.

This morning, two refugees recently released from detention in Melbourne and The Time for a Home alliance of 160 organisations and community networks, handed a petition to Labor, Greens and cross bench MPs with 36,923 signatures.

An Open Letter to the UN Security Council and Individual UN Member States

The Human Rights Law Centre has welcomed a Senate inquiry into Australia’s family migration program as an opportunity to reform a broken system that has been failing families for years. The long overdue investigation will examine the efficacy and fairness of the family visa system, and is expected to highlight systemic problems including massive delays, exorbitant visa costs and discriminatory policies disadvantaging people from refugee backgrounds.

Today, historic and long overdue public drunkenness reforms have passed the Victorian Parliament.

The Human Rights Law Centre has welcomed the South Australian Parliament’s commitment to people’s health and equality with the passing of long overdue abortion laws that decriminalise abortion, with the Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2020 passing the Parliament’s lower house by 29 votes to 15 early this morning.

Fair Agenda and the Human Rights Law Centre have slammed proposed amendments to the South Australian Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2020, saying they will undermine compassionate and accessible healthcare.

32 health, legal and community organisations have joined together to launch an open letter calling on members of parliament to be on the right side of history, and vote in support of the Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2020, due to be debated next week.

Credible evidence of mass internments, forced labour and other atrocities against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang provide an urgent case for action by the Australian Government to ensure businesses are not profiting from these abuses, the Human Rights Law Centre said this week in a report to a parliamentary committee.

Civil society groups have firmly denounced the military coup in Myanmar which has suspended civilian government and effectively returned full power to the military.