Please see details of the launch of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry report here and a full rundown on the committee’s 17 recommendations for a HRA and a Human Rights Framework as well.
In 2023 CLA achieved improvements to the HRA in the ACT, known as ’No Rights Without Remedy’. Citizens of the ACT will in future be able to take a human rights problem to the ACT Human Rights Commission for conciliation, and ultimately to ACAT, the Territory’s small claims and legal disputes tribunal, for a legal ruling if needed. In 2024, the ACT celebrates 20 years of its HR Act.
CLA is actively campaigning to improve the HR Acts in Queensland and Victoria by inclusion of the No Rights Without Remedy approach. We are also working with groups in SA, NSW, Tasmania, WA and the NT for the governments to introduce a HR Act into their state/territory law.
Here are background documents which outline the core campaign facts.
- Fair Go: Human Rights right around Australia
- What are human rights? Where from? Why?
- Rights in Sight Newsletter May 22
- RIGHTS IN SIGHT newsletter Nov 2021
- CHECKLIST for a Human Rights Act CLA Aug 2021
- NO RIGHTS WITHOUT REMEDY: improving the ACT HRA by CLA July 2021
- C’wlth Integrity Comm Bill: CLA submission Feb 2021
- Nationhood inquiry, Senate Aug 2020: CLA submission
- Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee Pandemic inquiry June 2020: CLA submission
- Human Rights STRATEGY for Business: CLA paper 2021
- Improving the ACT Human Rights Act: CLA submission April 2022 to ACT JACS Committee
- CLA Policy on Human Rights