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 and Refugees
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
Edward Santow – speaking notes – CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY
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
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.
Ghahani v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP)
Explore a report into arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the case of Ghahani v Commonwealth of Australia.
AI v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP)
Explore a report into arbitrary detention with family in the case of AI v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Immigration and Border Protection).