New UN assistant high commissioner for protection urges Scott Morrison to use political mandate for more humane refugee policy
June 2019
Witness K lawyer says raids on media show Australia becoming 'oppressive democracy'
Bernard Collaery is one of many whistleblowers facing prosecution, in his case for helping expose illegal spying on Timor-Leste
November 2018
Q&A: Gillian Triggs says Scott Morrison 'foolish' and 'unhelpful' over Bourke Street
ABC panel program also hears former Nationals leader John Anderson warn Barnaby Joyce against an attempt at taking party’s leadership
October 2018
Qantas 'women of influence' protest against airline's role in forced deportations
Nine finalists of a Qantas-sponsored award ask the airline to stop deporting asylum seekers
May 2018
Gillian Triggs joins call for digital rights reforms after brush with data's dark side
Digital Rights Watch report warns of ‘systematic and wilful degradation of our human rights online’
December 2017
Q&A: detention regime is designed to break refugees, says Gillian Triggs
The human rights commisioner provokes fiery debate on ABC show with Eric Abetz calling her claim ‘preposterous’
September 2017
Gillian Triggs: Australian law has fallen prey to 'isolation and exceptionalism'
Triggs uses Michael Kirby Oration to argue governments have taken advantage of the fear caused by terrorism
August 2017
Australia's offshore detention centres 'terrible', says architect of system
Paris Aristotle says ‘what has been put in place is not what was recommended’ and there is not a ‘skerrick of evidence’ it deters asylum seekers from boarding boats
July 2017
Gillian Triggs 'misguided' on Australia's human rights record, Julie Bishop says
Minister fires back after outgoing Human Rights Commission president says Coalition ‘ideologically opposed to human rights’
Gillian Triggs: Australian government 'ideologically opposed to human rights'
In her last week as human rights commissioner, Triggs says human rights are ‘regressing on almost every front’
Gillian Triggs warns Dutton's 'super ministry' endangers separation of powers
Triggs also says campaign to change section 18C of Racial Discrimination Act has been exhausted due to public support
June 2017
Rosalind Croucher to replace Gillian Triggs as Human Rights Commission president
Attorney general George Brandis announces the president of the Law Reform Commission will replace Triggs, praising her ‘pragmatic, constructive’ approach
Election 'shocks' should be a warning to politicians: stop sloganeering and start listening
Lenore Taylor
As voters seem determined to upend the status quo, political parties need to bring them – and those who speak for them – into the tent, not exclude them
Gillian Triggs says Australia's politicians leading 'assault' on democratic ideals
Human Rights Commission president says right to advocate and freedom of speech threatened by governments
May 2017
Gillian Triggs warns of increasing sexist attacks against women in public life
Gillian Triggs tells of alarm over 'demonising' of Muslims in Australia
Gillian Triggs says Coalition's 457 visa changes appear to be motivated by racism
Outgoing human rights commissioner Gillian Triggs wins freedom of speech award
April 2017
The weekly beast
Trolls tear into Courier-Mail columnist after blasts from Bolt and Blair
Amanda Meade
News Corp sticks up for comment moderators after columnists mock Paul Syvret, and gloom sets in for New York Times’ Australia bureau chief
