As Australia enters a new electoral term with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese back at the helm, and world affairs in a state of turmoil, it is critical to ask whether human rights will get deserved ...

Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Australia is the only Western democracy not to have a Human Rights Act in its legal system or constitution. Instead, Australia has a patchwork of rights, leaning on individual legislation, such as the ...

A new study published in the journal Archaeology in Oceania has revealed shocking information about modern humans in Australia, dramatically rewriting the continent’s history. According to the ...

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 ...