A teenager with multiple disabilities stranded for days in Vanuatu's capital city after a deadly 2024 earthquake is taking the Australian government to the federal court for disability discrimination. … JEC senior solicitor Nicola Colagiuri said Sean was unlawfully discriminated against on the basis of his disability. "Sean was treated less favourably than people without disability when he was trying…

First Peoples communities continue to be the hardest hit by "populist, blunt and harmful" laws, the Australian Human Rights Commission says. … Last month, more than 200 lawyers, academics, advocates and Indigenous organisations signed an open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, urging him to treat the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children as a national emergency. In…

We joined calls to disallow an extra 1 billion plus in unfair costs for NSW energy consumers.

Our coalition is urging the NSW Government to implement NSW Ombudsman recommendations and reverse an egregious decision to change the standard of proof for prison offences.

We recommend that the AER reject Transgrid’s request for over 1.1 billion in additional costs for Project EnergyConnect (PEC), because it is fundamentally invalid.

Our submission to the Inquiry on Intergenerational Housing Inequity shares the views of people with lived experience of homelessness or housing instability.

People who require powered medical equipment at home are some of the most vulnerable in our community, particularly when their energy supply is threatened. The AEMC can go further to make life support registration work better.

New research from Towards Truth examines how First Nations peoples’ lives have been shaped by criminal law and discretionary enforcement.

The JEC is part of a new social media campaign calling the NSW Government to do better for our children and communities.

Principal Solicitor Jonathan Hall Spence joined 2SER to discuss the Youth Justice Inquiry and the chance for reform.