CLArion Newsletter

Recent CLArions

• CLArion May 2023: time to make Human Rights Act submision

  More details are emerging on how public consultation over a Human Rights Act for Australia will get under way: you can express your support in a submission to the parliamentary committee by 1 July 2023, so please do, even if ...

• CLArion April 2023: Human Rights Act in place in 2024?

  The Australian Parliament wants to know whether Australia should have a Human Rights Act (HRA)…which could be enacted by December 2024. The Committee on Human Rights invites submissions until 1 July 2023, then will hold ...

• CLArion March 2023: Voice and Rights timetable clarifies

  The Voice campaign for a special Indigenous path to parliamentary debate launched in February. The first official call for a federal Human Rights Act is expected when the Australian Human Rights Commission tables its ‘Free & Equal’ report, four years ...

• CLArion February 2023: Free & Equal: your rights revealed next month

  As debate about The Voice becomes shriller on whether and how First Nations people can have a better say, the real question for all Australians is how we can gain the right to free speech and other freedoms currently only ...

• CLArion January 2023 – Human Rights Act special: model for Oz

  With The Voice to dominate 2023, CLA is concentrating on key national justice issues beyond the referendum. Since 2020, we have been lobbying hard behind the scenes on a Human Rights Act for Australia. To achieve the best possible version, ...

• CLArion December 2022 – Flawed justice, and women bear the brunt

  Increasingly, more women are in jail in Australia, and Aboriginal women are 21 times more likely to be jailed; most men and women in jail are suffering from mental health problems. The nation has an epidemic of poverty and homelessness, ...