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Border force apologises for failing to prevent ‘misconduct’ after reports found bullying and harassment

Exclusive: Apology issued to staff includes pledge ‘to foster a safe, inclusive, empowered, accountable and supportive workplace’

The Guardian - AU

It’s time for the Australian Human Rights Commission to stand up for the women of commercial TV

Complaints abound of a toxic culture rife with sexual harassment and unlawful discrimination. Women shouldn’t have to fight this battle on their own

The Guardian - AU

Damning report alleges sexual discrimination and harassment by ABF officers

Exclusive: Human rights commission finds ‘potentially unlawful conduct or inappropriate behaviour’ towards women is rife in Australian Border Force

The Guardian - AU

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Secret report warns Australian Border Force’s marine unit is ‘not safe for women’

Exclusive: Human rights commission calls for immediate intervention in the division and says sexism and bullying are rife

The Guardian - AU

Boost drug search powers, make immigration detention ‘last resort’, watchdog says

Watchdog argues drug search powers should be boosted to fix system that is ‘not fit for purpose’ as home affairs department rejects multiple recommendations

The Guardian - AU

Israel must allow humanitarian relief to reach Gaza, Australia and UK say in new joint statement – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Secret Serco rating system for immigration detainees must be scrapped, say Greens

Senator Nick McKim says company’s ‘opaque’ SRAT security assessment tool ‘has severe implications for fundamental human rights’

The Guardian - AU

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Julian Leeser accuses Australian Human Rights Commission of failing to address antisemitism

Commission chief says organisation has actively condemned antisemitism as well as Islamophobia linked to Israel-Gaza war

The Guardian - AU

Australian immigration detainees’ lives controlled by secret rating system developed by Serco

Security Risk Assessment Tool – or SRAT – and similar algorithmic tools condemned as ‘abusive’ and ‘unscientific’

The Guardian - AU

Revealed: the secret algorithm that controls the lives of Serco’s immigration detainees

The opaque risk rating system, used in Australian detention centres, is riddled with errors and effectively makes the company ‘judge, jury and executioner’, says one former detainee

The Guardian - AU

Mark Dreyfus approved human rights commission’s intervention in indefinite detention case

Attorney general signed off on AHRC’s intervention in favour of the plaintiff NZYQ, provided it made clear it was doing so on its own behalf

The Guardian - AU

New research and development labs to boost Scotland’s screen sector

SCOTLAND’S screen and performance industries are to be boosted by a new multi-million-pound research and development (R&D) lab with sites…

The National (Scotland)

‘Not proportionate’: Australian government urged to axe extraordinary terror powers amid low threat level

Australian Human Rights Commission says preventive detention regime is now harder to justify

The Guardian - AU

In the aftermath of the voice referendum, how can we unbork a polarised Australia? Here are three ways forward

A national anti-racism framework, a Human Rights Act and discrimination law could all do a lot of good, especially for Indigenous Australians

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Living with long Covid, I’m terrified of being reinfected with one of the new variants

After 1,284 days, I’m only just recovering from the coronavirus but there’s no vaccine for the likes of me

The Conversation

Yes, Labor's misinformation bill could jeopardise free speech online

In January this year, the federal government proposed legislation that seeks to curb the online spread of false and misleading information.

The Conversation

Is climate change really a reason not to have children? Here's four reasons why it's not that simple

In 2009, statistician Paul Murtaugh and climate scientist Michael Schlax calculated that having just one child in a high-emitting country such as the United States will add around 10,000 tonnes of CO₂ to the atmosphere. That’s five times the emissions an average parent produces in their entire lifetime.

The Conversation

How Gdańsk is reclaiming its industrial waterfront

The prosperity of port cities, throughout history, has been closely tied to the ports’ ability to adapt to economic and technological change. As ships got bigger, ports had to keep up. This has often seen the port proper grow apart from the city whose name it bears because the old…

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Some Neanderthals hunted bigger animals, across a larger range, than modern humans

The region of Estremadura in Portugal was home to a band of Neanderthals – an ancient evolutionary relative of modern humans – about 95,000 years ago. They made use of the patchwork of limestone caves, crags and river valleys, leaving traces of their activities in the form of stone tools,…

The Guardian - AU

AHRC targets robodebt, Covid policies and indefinite detention in push for federal human rights act

New report says a Human Rights Act could have prevented ‘abandonment’ of Australians overseas in Covid pandemic

ABC News

Australia's human rights record in the spotlight ahead of FIFA Women's World Cup starting in July

Qatar's spotty human rights record was a constant talking point during the men's World Cup last year. Now the Australian Human Rights Commission wants a proper conversation about Australia's record before the Women's World Cup in July and August.

The Guardian - AU

‘A disease’: Caste discrimination in Australia is on the rise – but some are fighting back

As migration from south Asia booms, Australia’s human rights commission is looking at stronger measures against caste-based discrimination

The Guardian - AU

Australian ex-soldier alleges ‘sexual violence’ inflicted on him during secretive course

Damien De Pyle said he was forced to commit humiliating acts while suffering sleep deprivation during torture resistance training, court documents show

The Guardian - AU

Egyptian challenging Australia’s indefinite detention warned he faces forced removal within month

Tony Sami, held for 10 years, is fighting to stay with his two children and had been preparing for landmark high court case

ABC News

Workplace sexual harassment rates aren't getting better. How do we make it stop?

Workers bearing the brunt of creepy comments and unwanted advances say it's is not good enough that rates of sexual harassment haven't improved over the past four years. WARNING: This article contains detailed descriptions of sexual harassment

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