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Daniel Reynolds

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Legal Researcher, UNSW

Concerns have been raised about whether Australia adequately protects human rights given multiple reports of abuses, including mistreatment of juvenile detainees. AAP/Lucy Hughes Jones

August 6, 2017

How a charter of rights could protect Australians’ fundamental freedoms

George Williams, UNSW and Daniel Reynolds, UNSW

Australia is the only democratic nation in the world without a national charter of rights or similar.

Detainees protest in the Woomera centre in 2002: ‘Animals in Australia have more rights than we have!’ one wrote. AAP/Tom Miletic

June 12, 2014

In Australia, animals have better rights than asylum seekers

Julian Burnside, Australian Catholic University and Daniel Reynolds, UNSW

Several years ago an asylum seeker wrote a letter about his experiences at the now-decommissioned Woomera Detention Centre. This is an extract: I have been in this cage for 13 months … Why should all these…

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