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If you don’t have a COVID vaccination certificate, could you be banned from restaurants, shops and theatres?
By Maria O’Sullivan Vaccine passports are an increasingly likely proposition in Australia. Last week, national cabinet “welcomed” a new COVID-19 digital vaccination certificate, which will be made available through the Medicare app or myGov. This week, government services minister Linda Reynolds confirmed Australians who have had two doses would be able to access a certificate. Australians are […]
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Explainer: what are abortion clinic safe-access zones and where do they exist in Australia?
Flickr photo by jordan_uhl Tania Penovic, Monash University New South Wales recently became the fifth Australian jurisdiction to enact legislation that establishes safe-access zones around abortion clinics. The legislation is a response to picketing of clinics by anti-abortion protesters for more than two decades. These protesters characterise themselves as “sidewalk counsellors” but their conduct has […]
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The 2015 Human Rights Report – Going to jail for not having a birth certificate? It happens
By Paula Gerber and Melissa Castan This article is featured in the 2015 Castan Centre Human Rights Report. We will be featuring the articles on the blog throughout the month of May. It is well known that millions of children around the world never have their births registered. UNICEF puts the total number of unregistered births at 230 […]
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The 2015 Human Rights Report – Indigenous Rights 2014/5: Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts?
By Stephen Gray and Melissa Castan This piece is featured in the 2015 Castan Centre Human Rights Report. We will be featuring the articles on the blog throughout the month of May. In the past twelve months, Australian Indigenous affairs have witnessed three so-called ‘developments’: more weighty and bewildering government reports; more unsuccessful test cases brought by […]
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Jeopardising access to justice for people experiencing mental illness
Guest Blogger: Catherine Leslie, Mental Health Legal Centre For many people with mental health issues in Australia, infringements on human rights and inequality are everyday lived experiences through forced psychiatric treatment and detention and restrictions on their ability to manage their own affairs. The many social and economic disadvantages they encounter mean that free independent […]
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Plain packaging legislation and international investor rights: a challenge to Australia’s regulatory sovereignty
by Sarah Joseph The much-discussed plain packaging legislation for cigarettes will come into force until December 2012. Tobacco companies plan to wage a sustained campaign of “lawfare” against it, including a likely constitutional challenge and arbitral proceedings under a Hong Kong/Australia bilateral agreement. There is also the possibility of proceedings against Australia in the World […]
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