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Thorpe, Greens call for Victorian ‘No Air’ prison bill to be scrapped
Senator Lidia Thorpe and the Greens are the latest to call for a controversial V...
Dechlan Brennan 12 Aug 2026
'Abuse, restraint and isolation': Campaign pushes national minimum standards for children in custody
A new campaign calling for enforceable national minimum standards to protect the...
Dechlan Brennan 4 Aug 2026
'Unconscionable': Prisoners denied guaranteed daily access to fresh air under new Victorian laws
Prisoners in Victoria will no longer be guaranteed daily access to fresh air aft...
Dechlan Brennan 31 Jul 2026
Analysis: When every expert is ignored, who is left to speak for children?
If the Northern Territory Government really cares about children, it has an inte...
Dechlan Brennan 10 Jul 2026
Another woman has died in a Queensland prison: there is nothing routine about that

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article contains the names of deceased Indigenous people. Author's note: We have consulted directly with Shandell Pryor's family befo...

Indigenous Solicitors Foundation to boost First Nations legal practitioners

More Indigenous law graduates will be able to access the support they need to make the transition to legal practice with the establishment of a new foundation by Australia's largest legal membership b...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 9, 2026
Kimberley Aboriginal women are set to take their case to the United Nations in Geneva

A delegation of Aboriginal women from Western Australia's Kimberley region is travelling to Geneva on Wednesday, determined to champion the rights of Indigenous women and girls on the world stage.

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Jul 8, 2026
NAIDOC’s call for change across the decades: from Day of Mourning to economic reconciliation

NAIDOC's origins belong inside a longer history of Aboriginal resistance to the economic architecture of colonial Australia. It emerged from Aboriginal protest against colonisation that had taken land...

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Darren Godwell Jul 8, 2026
Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre welcomes court reopening but warns of impact on remote families

Marninwarntikura Women's Resource Centre, based in Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia's Kimberley region, has welcomed the announcement regional court sittings will resume almost a month earlier th...

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Jul 7, 2026
Australia's rejection of UN recommendations fuels First Nations justice concerns

Australia's response to international scrutiny of its human rights record has been condemned by Indigenous legal advocates, who say the federal government is ignoring mounting evidence of systemic rac...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 7, 2026
A masterclass in legislative abuse: Testing the NT’s Every Child Matters Bill against international human rights law criteria for Weaponised Legislation

On Wednesday, July 8, the Northern Territory Legislative Scrutiny Committee will table its final report on the Care and Protection of Children Legislation Amendment (Every Child Matters) Bill 2026 (NT...

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Maithili Mishra Jul 6, 2026
'The next fifty years of NAIDOC must strengthen what the last fifty have fought to protect'

For fifty years, NAIDOC has celebrated the strength of our people. It honours the generations who protected our cultures, languages and law through every attempt to erase them.

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William Tilmouth Jul 6, 2026
Indonesian human rights commission demands review of military operations over West Papuan deaths

Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights has called on the country's President, Prabowo Subianto, to conduct a review of security operations for possible new rules of engagement for military an...

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Jul 6, 2026
Human rights commission blasts government for ignoring key UN reforms on First Nations rights

The Albanese government has come under fire after rejecting key United Nations recommendations aimed at improving the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, with the Australian Human R...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 2, 2026
Social Justice Report: Structural reform key to the future of First Nations rights

Australia will fail to close the gap or achieve lasting justice for First Nations peoples unless governments move beyond decades of unfulfilled commitments and embed Indigenous rights into the nation'...

UN recommendations on Indigenous rights largely rejected by Albanese government

The Albanese government has rejected key United Nations recommendations aimed at improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including calls to raise the age of criminal respo...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 30, 2026
Indonesian military drop grenades from drones targeting Indigenous civilians, Human Rights Monitor and Free West Papua campaigners report

The Indonesian military has allegedly launched airstrikes across West Papua with aerial drones, reportedly killing an Indigenous woman from the occupied territory while injuring several others over th...

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Jun 26, 2026
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