Australia cannot ignore Myanmar’s refugee crisis any longer

Australia cannot claim to be a champion of human rights while leaving Myanmar’s displaced people without options or...

12 March 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

UN decision on Australia’s human rights breaches a decade in the making

A legal centre’s decade-long fight to secure justice for children detained on Nauru has paid off with a landmark...

13 January 2025

By Naomi Neilson

High Court case to determine whether ‘indefinite immigration detention’ is unlawful

The High Court recently heard a challenge to the Australian government’s continued detention of refugees and asylum...

19 April 2024

By Lauren Croft

DLA Piper partners with community legal centre to aid refugees

DLA Piper has partnered with a community legal centre specialising in refugee and immigration law, policy and...

01 September 2022

By Lauren Croft

‘Australia must act now’: Emergency humanitarian visas needed for Afghanistan

A year on from the Taliban takeover, the Action for Afghanistan campaign has reiterated its call for the federal...

12 August 2022

By Jess Feyder

HRLC calls for new ministers to take action on Australian refugee policy

Newly appointed Minister for Home Affairs and Minister of Immigration, Clare O’Neil and Andrew Giles, have been met...

06 June 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

Is Australia doing enough to help Afghanistan?

The Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee for Australia has released Australia’s engagement in...

13 April 2022

By Shandel McAuliffe

Budget 2022: What it means for war crimes in Afghanistan and refugees

The federal budget, as announced by Lawyers Weekly on Tuesday (29 March), provides the Office of the Special...

01 April 2022

By Shandel McAuliffe

Family visa system in need of dramatic improvement, Senate inquiry finds

A Senate inquiry has shown that the current legal system is failing to keep migrant families together, and bureaucracy...

31 March 2022

By Shandel McAuliffe

LCA calls on Australian government to accommodate Ukrainian refugees

Alongside members of the international legal community, the Law Council of Australia has expressed its grave concerns...

02 March 2022

By Naomi Neilson

Djokovic saga highlights immigration issues

The speed with which tennis superstar Novak Djokovic was able to appeal and have his visa cancellation overturned has...

12 January 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

‘We are conditioned to expect less’

A report focusing on migrant and refugee women’s safety in Australia has been launched, offering key findings into...

01 July 2021

By Lauren Croft