{"id":678759,"date":"2024-06-04T11:37:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T01:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org.au\/?p=678759"},"modified":"2024-06-04T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T03:55:46","slug":"good-news-human-rights-act-is-one-step-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org.au\/good-news-human-rights-act-is-one-step-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD NEWS: Human Rights Act is one step closer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>With a Human Rights Act, we can create a fairer future for all of us. Today, we\u2019re one step closer to having our rights protected in laws.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia&#8217;s current patchwork laws don\u2019t protect our human rights. Only our right to live free from discrimination is protected in our current laws. Our rights to healthcare, education, and housing aren\u2019t protected at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the Disability, Aged Care, and Robodebt Royal Commissions we&#8217;ve seen what happens when governments don&#8217;t have to consider people&#8217;s human rights. Disability service workers, Centrelink staff and politicians, don&#8217;t have to consider our human rights when making decisions. and can violate those rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without a Human Rights Act there\u2019s nothing people can do when the rights are abused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a Human Rights Act, governments will have to consider people\u2019s human rights when drafting laws, developing policies, and delivering services &#8211; like aged care, Medicare, disability services, and education funding. And everyone will be able to take action and challenge injustice when their rights are abused. A Human Rights Act would give people a clear pathway to protect their rights in court and seek remedies if their rights were abused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has recommended legislating a national Human Rights Act!<br><br>A Human Rights Act would mean all Australians would have their human rights protected in law, rather than the current patchwork of protections and implied rights.<\/p>&mdash; Amnesty International Australia \ud83d\udd6f (@amnestyOz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amnestyOz\/status\/1795969427265163411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> On 30 May, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, handed down their report on their Inquiry into Australia&#8217;s Human Rights Framework. <strong>The report included an exciting recommendation for Parliament to legislate a Human Rights Act.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023 Amnesty supporters sent over 4,000 submissions to the inquiry, showing the Albanese government that there are thousands of people, all around Australia, who want them to legislate a Human Rights Act. The Committee referenced these submissions from Amnesty supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Darwin Amnesty Action Group stated that intersecting features of a person\u2019s identity may have contributed to wide ranging and compounded impacts, including of inequality, inequity, trauma and injustice, as well as ripple effect on people\u2019s family, kin, community and on society as a whole.<\/p>\n<cite>Inquiry into Australia&#8217;s Human Rights Framework<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Inquiry report noted that nearly 90 percent of the thousands of submissions it received supported a federal Human Rights Act. A coalition of 103 civil society organisations have welcomed the Committee&#8217;s recommendation to legislate a Human Rights Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recommendation means we\u2019re one step closer to protecting all our rights in law. Now, we need the Albanese government to agree to the inquiry recommendation and commit to legislating a Human Rights Act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We know that 3 in 4 people support the government legislating a Human Rights Act. To get them to commit to legislation an Act, Members of Parliament need to hear that their constituents support a Human Rights Act and want them to legislate one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every day, with your support, we move closer to a world where all of our rights are protected in law. Where our government considers and respects human rights, and where we can take action if our rights are abused. With a Human Rights Act, people can create better lives for themselves and their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tell your MP that you support a Human Rights Act now! 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