On Friday, May 5, 2017, at the Law Faculty, UNSW, the former Chief Justice of the High Court, Robert French AC, launched Law and Poverty in Australia: 40 Years after the Poverty Commission. Listen to speeches from the launch here....
The Law and Poverty in Australia Report in 1975 was a landmark event in the history of Australian law reform. Since that time there has been no systematic overview of the inter-relation between law and poverty in Australia. Read more from Andrea Durbach, Brendan Edgeworth and Vicki Sentas (eds)...
While the concept of slavery may seem remote to many Australians, we often unwittingly benefit from modern slavery via the clothes we buy, the food we eat and the companies we invest in. Read more from Justine Nolan and Jo Ford...
AHRCentre intern Michaela Vaughan writes about the considerable community backlash from a wide cross-section of society opposed to the Adani development on various cultural, economic, and environmental grounds.
Despite the general abolition of slavery in the 19th century, the International Labour Organization reports that more than 21 million people are presently affected by ‘modern slavery’, a term encompassing trafficking, forced labour and slavery. Read more by Belinda Goh...
Community legal centres (CLCs) are not-for-profit community organisations that provide free legal services. They are facing funding cuts from the federal government. Here’s what you need to know....read more
Speakers from the UNSW International Women's Day breakfast included the Shadow Minister for Women Tanya Plibersek, AHRCentre Director Professor Andrea Durbach, NUS president Sophie Johnston and Professor Rosalind Dixon.
Prof Andrea Durbach, director of the AHRCentre, delivered a speech, along with 8 other prominent women, at UNSW's IWD breakfast. Over 250 people gathered to listen to leading academics and MP/Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Tanya Plibersek. Read the speech here.
A heatwave is more than a hot week. It is also an issue of environmental justice. An environmental justice perspective recognises that the benefits and burdens of the physical environment are rarely distributed evenly. Some people receive more than their fair share of the benefits and burdens.
