Australia is a migrant nation, but one-in-10 citizens are "racial supremacists" despite racism generally waning, says a 10-year study.
Australia’s treatment of suspected people smugglers who said that they were children has breached international human rights law and raised serious questions about the resilience of our criminal justice system, Australian Human Rights Commission President Catherine Branson QC said today. Ms Branson has today released An age of uncertainty, the report of her Inquiry into the treatment of suspected people smugglers who said that they were children. In releasing the report, Ms Branson said that between late 2008 and late 2011, Australian authorities apparently gave little weight to the rights of these young Indonesians. “The events outlined in this report reveal that, between 2008 and 2011, each of the Australian Federal Police, the Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and the Attorney-General’s Department engaged in acts and practices that led to contraventions of fundamental rights; not just rights recognised under international human rights law but in some cases rights also recognised at common law, such as the right to a fair trial,” Ms Branson said. See full Press Release.
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