Rosalind Croucher, the outgoing president of the Australian Human Rights Commission, has called for the creation of a national human rights act.
In an address to the National Press Club of Australia, Ms Croucher said that she had become increasingly convinced of the need for the act in recent years, arguing it would lead Parliament to “consider more directly how their lawmaking affects people’s freedoms and rights”.
There has long been a call from human rights experts for Australia to take this action as it is the only Western liberal democracy without a legislated human rights act.
