Stopping Killer Robots
Learn more about how lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) threaten human rights and why they must be prohibited.
Learn more about how lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) threaten human rights and why they must be prohibited.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has called for a redraft of a new Bill to amend ASIO’s powers.
CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY
Australian Human Rights Commission Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence And Security
21 August 2014
The Australian Human Rights Commission provides this response to the questionnaire from the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in relation to judicial review of the lawfulness of detention.
Read how under the Privacy Act, all Australians are protected from unlawful interference with in relation to thier privacy, family, home or correspondence.
"A system of tyranny, the most galling, the most horrible, the most undisguised in all its parts and attributes that has stained the page of history or disgraced the annals of the world." British Prime Minister William Pitt, 10 November 1797, speech to the House of Commons concerning France under the government of the Directory.
In the post-September 11 world, debate about counter-terrorism is often characterised as an argument between 'the realists', who appreciate the need for tough new counter-terrorism laws, and 'the out of touch', who fail to take the terrorist threat seriously.