PIAC’s submission to the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department regarding the consolidation of Commonwealth anti-discriminaiton laws makes a number of recommendations to improve access to justi

The United Nations Human Rights Council undertook a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Australia’s Human Rights Record in January 2011. The Committee provided Australia with 145 recommendations.

Rough Living is a research report commissioned by the Public Interest Advocacy and produced by Dr Catherine Robinson.

This submission examines PIAC’s concerns about section 17 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 (NSW) (LPA), which prohibits legal practices from employing or having as an “associate” anyone who has been c

Same sex marriage was prohibited for the first time under the last government in a discriminatory and unjustifiable change to the Marriage Act 1961 (Cth).

In this paper, presented to the NSW Young Lawyers’ ‘A Charter of Rights’ Conference, the author considered four aspects of the current situation of human rights protection in Australia: The first asp

The Homeless Persons’ Legal Service (HPLS), a joint initiative of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH), in this submission welcomes the opport

On 1 November 2007 NSW Police rolled out the State-wide Criminal Infringement Notices (CIN) scheme which allowed police to issue on-the-spot fines for a number of minor criminal offences including off

PIAC has provided comments to the NSW Attorney General’s Department on the Standing Committee of Attorneys General (SCAG) Draft Model Spent Convictions Bill 2008 (SA), supporting the harmonisation of

PIAC, in its submission to the …, commends the Federal Government on implementing the majority of recommendations from the Productivity Commission’s 2004 review of the Disability Discrimination Act