Video and wrap-up - On Monday 24 August 2020 the ALRC and UQ hosted a webinar with a panel of experts discussing the potential for a future ALRC inquiry into press freedom.
Australia was once the model for press freedom in the Asia-Pacific. In 2019, Australia dropped five places in the World Press Freedom Index and widespread calls for law reform prompted two parliamentary inquiries into press freedom; the first of those inquiries has now reported.
There is a theory that despite all the commotion, religious freedom faces no significant threat in Western democracies like Australia. Therefore, the argument goes, we do not need a federal Religious Discrimination Act.
The Australian government has stepped up its campaign this month to prevent the Great Barrier Reef being listed as a World Heritage site “in danger” at international meetings next year.
A University of Queensland Law School academic has partnered with a local community legal centre to develop Queensland’s first human rights case law database.
University of Queensland Arts/Law graduate Briana Collins is determined to change the world through her work with the Queensland Environmental Defenders Office (EDO).
Legal professionals, journalists and researchers now have access to a new-and-improved version of the Deaths in Custody Project – the first comprehensive national database of its kind.
