Human Rights Commissioner
Australia Is Closing Immigration Detention Centres But it's Not All Good News
It's good because it means there are fewer detainees, but bad because the remaining detainees might go to Nauru.
What's Going On With Australia's Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson?
On January 29, Australia was placed on the Human Rights Watch list for its treatment of indigenous people, asylum seekers, and the LGBTI community. Where was Tim Wilson when all this was going on?
Human Rights Watch Says Australia Hasn’t Solved Problems, It’s Added New Ones
According to Human Rights Watch's 2015 World Report, Australia isn't doing great.
The US Agrees That David Hicks Is Innocent
Hick's former lawyer Dan Mori has said the US admission of innocence marks "the beginning of the end" of Hicks' ordeal.
Dispatch from the Public Hearing Into Children in Australia’s Detention Centres
We watched Scott Morrison get grilled under oath.
This Guy Is Taking on the Montreal Police’s Racial Profiling Problem
In April 2010, Farid Charles was illegally arrested and the Quebec Human Rights Commission declared it racial profiling. Now Farid is taking a stand, hoping to reopen the discussion about police brutality and race in Montreal.
Could Changes to Asylum Seeker Processing Save the Budget?
Supporters of the government’s asylum seeker policy rebut concerns about detention centres with the same comment: now the boats have stopped, we can start clearing the backlog of detainees currently in detention. Unfortunately, that argument doesn’t...
Tim Wilson Is Trying To Give You a Freedom You Don’t Want Or Need
Not sure why but Australia's Human Rights Commissioner is fighting for the n-word