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At its meeting on 30 August 2024, the University Council passed a special resolution approving an increase in the number of its elected student members. From 1 January 2025, student representation on the Council will include an undergraduate and a postgraduate student position providing for a greater diversity of student perspectives.

The NSW Police chief says officers should not attend mental health incidents where there is no immediate risk to people's safety.

On 7 August 2024, the Centre for Law and Social Justice partnered with the with the Australian Human Rights Commission on their "Speaking from Experience Project" to raise awareness around workplace sexual harassment, especially in under-represented groups

Research project selected for funding by the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (ACSES)

Earlier this month, Travis Bazzana made history as the first Australian selected number one in the Major League Baseball (MLB) draft.

The Centre for Law and Social Justice builds collaborative partnerships with government agencies and NGO's in Samoa

For those in the LGBTQIA+ community, Pride month is a chance to be out, loud and proud. But in the United States, there's been an uneasy quiet hanging over this June.

For almost 1,000 years, pregnant women in England could avoid the death penalty just by virtue of being pregnant. A pregnant woman sentenced to death would receive a stay of execution until the baby was born.

Australia is a human rights outlier among liberal democracies, with no national charter of human rights. Its human rights protections are piecemeal and split across a patchwork of laws, authorities and jurisdictions.

As part of our advocacy work, the University of Newcastle’s Centre for Law and Social Justice (CLSJ) made two submissions to the Inquiry (submissions 185 and 185.1).

The request by Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders is a significant step in the effort to bring justice to the victims of international crimes in Israel and Palestine.

Bullying by judges, magistrates and other judicial officers is a factor in many lawyers leaving the profession.