Why doesn't Australia have a national Human Rights Act?

SBS News In Depth
13/10/2025 4 min
Why doesn't Australia have a national Human Rights Act?

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Human right law experts are calling the federal government to take what they call a significant opportunity to establish a federal Human Rights Act. It comes as a new report analyses how attempts to create such an act in Australia over five decades has been met with political opposition and misinformation.

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