The National Justice Project this week started a petition calling for legislative change and immediate action to protect journalists and whistle-blowers following the AFP raids on ABC and Annika Smethurst. Last week the ABC headquarters and the home of journalist Annika Smethurst were raided by the AFP, after they, some time ago, published well-researched and vetted news stories blowing the …

The National Justice Project is acting for Kearah Ronan, a young Aboriginal woman who was locked up, at 6 months pregnant, for “failing to obey a witness summons”. She had informed the Court Registry that she was too sick to attend and had offered a medical certificate. The summons was for a domestic violence matter – in which she was …

The National Justice Project works to tackle systemic injustice and racism in government institutions and part of our theory of change is bringing these issues to public attention via traditional and social media. The recent coronial inquest into the tragic death of Naomi Williams was one where the court heard hard evidence that there is a correlation between poor treatment …

The Aboriginal woman’s death comes twenty years after her father, Warren Cooper, died in custody after being found unresponsive in a police watch house in Albany. They were both 26 years old. Adj. Professor George Newhouse, Managing Director of the National Justice Project, is representing the family, and says they were “extremely distressed” by Ms Wynne’s death. Cherdeena’s mother, Shirley …

The ABC claims that Australia has been cancelling the visas of women on route to Australia, and summarily returning a number of women to transit countries.

These actions are a clear violation of the right to seek asylum, enshrined in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.