Australia should change its Constitution to recognise Indigenous people and to prohibit racial discrimination, according to an independent report handed to Prime Minister Julia Gillard today by the Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is representing Mr Graeme Innes AM who is suing RailCorp for disability discrimination. He alleges that RailCorp has failed to consistently provide audible announcements on trains, in breach of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.

When Sydney resident Julia Haraksin tried to travel to Canberra with Murrays Australia Limited in August 2009, none of Murrays’ coaches and buses were wheelchair accessible. 

Tut Nyal (pictured) was just a teenager when he escaped the civil war in Sudan and arrived in Australia as a refugee.

NSW Police face action in the NSW Supreme Court on Wednesday, 24 August 2011. The police are being sued by PIAC and law firm Maurice Blackburn on behalf of hundreds of young people unlawfully detained on the basis of wrong bail information.

Frontline community workers from the local area meet in Lismore today to hear first-hand stories about homelessness and the impact of the legal system on disadvantaged people.

MEDIA ALERT: A coronial inquest into Mark Holcroft’s death in custody moves to the Glebe Coroner’s Court on Monday, 25 July.