Anthony Albanese hopes to become the first Australian prime minister in 21 years to lead a political party to consecutive ...

All this means that the scope of the Gumatj decision in practice is restricted to commonwealth territories – such as the Top End and Canberra – and various commonwealth places, such as certain coastal ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission recently published a report entitled Collateral Damage: What the untold stories from ...

Experts told AAP FactCheck the claim that the 1988 law stripped Australians of their rights is false. Harry Hobbs, a ...

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s proposal to change the Australian constitution to give Ministers discretionary power to ...

Any such payouts will be designed, in line with the Mabo decision itself, to benefit a privileged layer of indigenous land ...

The Albanese government is bracing for a nationwide wave of compensation battles with Aboriginal groups after the High Court ruled native title is “property”, a finding predicted to be as significant ...

This month’s High Court ruling on Indigenous property rights confirms the full humanity of First Nations people.

Mahmoud Khalil's detainment has sparked a fiery First Amendment debate over the free speech rights of non-citizens.

At the turn of the 21st century, Australia put on a show for the world, but for all the talk of the future, we still had one ...

This year the European Convention on Human Rights and its Strasbourg court are 75 years old – the age at which British judges ...

Constitutional law ... communists were seen as a threat to Australia’s security. “But in the end it was defeated because it was seen as taking away rights and liberties without due process ...