Australia passed new laws that expand government authority to ban hate groups and impose tougher penalties for hate crimes.

Australia’s push for a federal Human Rights Act is stalled by political caution and media hostility. The path forward may ...

Australia has been urged to do better on keeping children and Indigenous people out of prison, treat refugees and asylum seekers more fairly and step up its efforts to fight climate change, in a major ...

Mark Dreyfus has been appointed Australia’s special envoy on human rights. Is the government prepared to match international advocacy with concrete action at home – by finally legislating a Human ...

Independent human rights experts on Monday urged lawmakers in the Australian state of Queensland to vote against a bill introducing additional criminal offenses and imposing adult sentences on youth ...

In a letter to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Monday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the re-elected Labour government to leverage its key foreign policies to strengthen human rights ...

Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any explanation in doing so. When it comes to swatting away scrutiny by ...

SYDNEY, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The first deportation of a person from Australia to the Pacific Island nation of Nauru under a billion-dollar deal to resettle non-citizens with criminal records raises ...