Media releases

Asylum Seekers / Asylum seeker settles handcuffing case against the Commonwealth

Asylum seeker and PIAC client Yasir* has settled a claim against the Commonwealth and security contractor Serco over his treatment...

15 Nov 2023

A fairer NDIS / UN asked to rule on whether NDIS age cap is a human rights breach

Dr Peter Freckleton, an Australian with a severe and permanent disability, is alleging the Australian Government is discriminating against him...

2 Nov 2023

Policing and Detention / Unreasonable, unjust, oppressive and improperly discriminatory: watchdog blasts police on STMP

A scathing report from the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) says NSW Police use of the Suspect Targeting Management Plan...

30 Oct 2023

Human Rights / Leading Organisations come together to #RaiseTheAge in NSW

A coalition has come together in NSW to call on the NSW Government to raise the age of criminal responsibility...

25 Oct 2023

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Justice / Police must act to close the gap: LECC report highlights discriminatory policing

A new report from police oversight body the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) emphasises that NSW Police need to do...

24 Oct 2023

Policing and Detention / Legal Academics, experts, and advocates issue an open letter urging the NSW Government to implement mental health policing reforms.

Legal Academics, legal experts, and social justice advocates representing community legal centres, legal services and organisations, law faculties, and advocacy...

28 Sep 2023

Energy + Water / Eraring extension unnecessary: Government has cheaper, cleaner options

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has called on the NSW Government to adopt a program of reliable, sustainable energy...

28 Aug 2023

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Justice / Groundbreaking website to empower First Nations truth telling in Australia

Towards Truth is the first attempt to document and analyse the vast catalogue of laws and government policies that have...

8 Aug 2023

Discrimination / No time for tinkering: PIAC calls for rewrite of NSW discrimination law as Law Reform Commission review announced

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) welcomes today’s announcement in Question Time that NSW Attorney-General Michael Daley has asked the...

28 Jun 2023

Discrimination / NSW religious vilification reforms ‘too broad and need further amendment’

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre acknowledges the need to protect people of minority faiths in NSW against vilification but believes...

28 Jun 2023

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