For Australia to be respected on human rights, it needs to look deeper into its own record
- Written by Jon Piccini, Lecturer, Australian Catholic University
Australia has just entered its final year of its membership on the UN Human Rights Council. This position was won on the strength of two key arguments:
Australia would be the first Pacific nation to sit on the body, founded in 2007
our long-standing commitments to civil and political rights made us a safe set of hands among a membership that...