Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Australia is the only Western democracy that does not have a national Human Rights Act, but this may be about to change ...

Last week, a 17-year-old boy died by self-harm in his cell at Banksia Hill Detention Centre in Western Australia. This tragic event was the second death of a child within the state’s youth detention ...

(Bangkok) – The Australian government’s progress on human rights over the past year was undermined by continued abuses against refugees and asylum seekers, Human Rights Watch said today in its World ...

A ‘tough on crime’ political culture tends to bring the same solution to every crisis: harsher laws. That’s a problem. When media reports emerged earlier this year about a new youth “crime wave” of ...

David Birchall is Deputy Director of the B&HR Access to Justice Lab at Macquarie Law School. Ebony Birchall is the Deputy Director of the B&HR Access to Justice Lab at Macquarie University. She has ...