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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. - James Thurber

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Conscience

Michael Kirby Oration, Adelaide AABHL conference, 3 July 2010

Social debate and discussion at Agora

We are still keeping minors in immigration detention: see answers given in Senate Estimates.

Senate Access to Justice Report (Dec 2009)

Support for and information about detainees on Christmas Island: site is still under construction

Download Uniting Church Human Rights kit ; get Get-Up’s factsheet on refugees

Australians All and The Justice Project

find a Community Legal Centre to help you

The Rendition Monologues: available here for any theatre group to perform

The arts

Art, music and theatre: what’s on at fortyfive downstairs (45 Flinders Lane Melbourne)

Wolfgang Sievers photographs for sale

Fine chamber music: Musica Viva Australia

Opinion: National Times

Today news headlines: SBS online, Age, SMH, Australian, ABC, Guardian,

Breakfast Politics

World clock graphically illustrating time zones

Current affairs and comment: Inside Story

Latest news and projects

· Special Review of CIA interrogation techniques in Guantanamo Bay etc

· UN Human Rights Committee Report on Australia

· A new report on the operation of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities

· Human Rights Watch 2009 Report

· The Australian Human Rights Group announces its campaign for a Human Rights Act for Australia, to coincide with the 60^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 10 December 1948 – 10 December 2008

· Proust report on department of Immigration response to Palmer and Comrie reports

· Sir Richard Kirby lecture, 2008

· Report of joint parliamentary committee on detention

· It’s Time for Australia to have a Charter of Rights

· Magnificent bloopers in commentary at the Olympic Games

· English Court of Appeal holds government to account for ‘special rendition’

· Jail for politicians who mislead the public. Ignore Laurie Oakes and
Andrew Bolt who misrepresent or misunderstand the point.
See the argument here.

· 9^th Manning Clark Lecture, delivered 10 March 2008

· Age editorial calls for scrapping of mandatory detention

· HREOC report on mandatory detention

· Melbourne's most popular arts venue: fortyfivedownstairs at 45 Flinders Lane

· The Charter of Rights in Victoria

· The Centre for Constitutional Rights

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