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Silly Season Blog Post: Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’ makes the CEDAW Shame List
By Adam Fletcher Credit: vulture.com This year I spent many hours in the car commuting, so I had a lot of time to listen to the radio. The problem is I have an unfortunate habit (so my partner tells...
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Do we need a new Human Rights Commissioner? Yes, but it’s complicated…
Adam Fletcher Tim Wilson has just announced his resignation as human rights commissioner to seek Liberal Party preselection for the federal seat of Goldstein. Wilson resigned from the party in 2013 to...
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Government seeks to ramp up terror laws yet again
By Adam Fletcher Australia’s ever-expanding anti-terror laws were in the spotlight again last week when the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (JCIS) tabled its report on the...
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The ALRC’s Freedoms Inquiry – Time for a ‘War’ on Rights Encroachments?
Last week the Attorney-General tabled the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC’s) Report Traditional Rights and Freedoms – Encroachments by Commonwealth Laws. This Final Report from the ‘Freedoms...
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What does Human Rights Law say about Gun Control?
Opponents of gun control in the United States have a powerful ally in domestic law, because their Constitution contains a right to ‘keep and bear arms.’ Since the Heller Supreme Court case in 2008,...
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Criminal Convictions for Consensual Sex
Imagine a world in which you could be convicted of a crime merely for having sex with another consenting adult. It sounds like the sadistic, dystopian construct of a fictional fanatical regime, but the...
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Why Indonesia Should Not Resume Executions
Yesterday, following reports and rumours from two weeks ago, Indonesian police confirmed that the country is about to lift its de facto moratorium on the death penalty. This is a clear step backwards,...
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The Historic Conviction of Hissène Habré
Hissène Habré was the President of Chad from 1982 to 1990. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in Senegal on Monday (30 May) for crimes against humanity committed during his brutal reign, including...
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Ratification of the OPCAT – what will it mean for Australia?
Yesterday at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s annual NGO Forum, the Foreign Minister and Attorney-General announced that Australia would ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention...
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18C Report Raises Questions about Joint Committee on Human Rights’ role
The Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) wasn’t always as equivocal and uncertain as yesterday’s report on s 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (the RD Act) makes it seem....
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