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Inspection of Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation Report (2017)

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This report contains an overview of key observations and concerns arising from the Australian Human Rights Commission’s inspection of the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) detention facility in March 2017.

Making detention safe and humane: can we grasp a once-in-a-generation opportunity?

Making detention safe and humane: can we grasp a once-in-a-generation opportunity?

Austin Asche Oration
Australian Academy of Law and Charles Darwin University
Nitmiluk Lounge, Level 4, Parliament House, Darwin

5pm, 19 September 2017

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Introduction

Acknowledgements

Hobart Oration

Explore a speech by Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, in relation to the state of human rights in Australia.

Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Human Rights: Snapshot Report (2nd Edition) 2017

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The second edition of this Report provides an update on legal and policy developments related to refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia since 2013. The Report is not intended to address all the issues facing refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia. Instead, it focuses on developments which place Australia at risk of breaching its international human rights obligations

Protecting refugees

As recent reports allege asylum seekers are being removed from Manus Island and returned to their place of origin, Commission President, Professor Gillian Triggs, reflects on the nation's responsibilities.

Access and equity: human rights in practice

Speech to SydWest Multicultural Services AGM
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Acknowledgements:

  • the traditional Aboriginal owners of the land, the Darug people
  • Dr Chandrika Subramaniyan (Chair, SydWest Multicultural Services)
  • Elfa Moraitakis (CEO, SydWest)

Introduction

Australia is a wonderful country: warm, welcoming, open.

Pathways to Protection: A human rights-based response to the flight of asylum seekers by sea

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President’s introduction Australia’s policy of sending asylum seekers and refugees to Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island for processing of their claims has been one of the most contentious aspects of Australia’s migration policies. Introduced in 2012, third country processing has been a key plank of successive Australian governments to deter asylum seekers from travelling to Australia by sea. Those who reach our shores are not permitted...

Tony Blackshield Lecture

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE OVERREACH OF EXECUTIVE DISCRETION: CITIZENSHIP, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND WHISTLEBLOWERS

It is a special pleasure for me to speak in honour of Professor Blackshield, who is a long time colleague of mine in the law.  He is a constitutional law scholar of the highest order and one of the most influential figures in Australian legal education over the last 50 years.

Hotung Fellowship Public Lecture 2016

Human rights across the Tasman: a widening gulf. I am honoured to have been invited to give this lecture at the Law School of the University of Canterbury, funded by the generosity of the Sir Eric Hotung Fellowship. 

Human rights across the Tasman: a widening gulf

I am honoured to have been invited to give this lecture at the Law School of the University of Canterbury, funded by the generosity of the Sir Eric Hotung Fellowship.