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This edition of the Bulletin, which is proudly sponsored by DLA Phillips Fox, includes:

• An opinion piece on ‘Australia’s New Human Rights Framework: Icing without a Cake’
• Human rights news, including in relation to the development of an individual complaints procedure under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the provision of further support to the Centre by the Victorian Department of Justice and DLA Phillips Fox
• Updates on National Charters of Rights, including a summary of the Australian Government’s ‘Human Rights Framework’ in response to the National Human Rights Consultation, and an opinion piece on ‘The Church and a Charter: What Must Christians Do Better?’ by Rev Angus McLeay
• Updates on the Victorian Charter of Rights, including a summary of the recent report of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission on the Charter, and six new case studies from Victoria and the UK which demonstrate the ways in which a Charter of Rights can improve transparency and accountability in government, promote dignity and address disadvantage
• Victorian Charter case notes, including from the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (landmark decision that the eviction of a vulnerable tenant from public housing without adequate justification is unlawful and a breach of human rights)
• Comparative law case notes on significant recent human rights decisions from the European Court of Human Rights (the right to privacy and the protection of families and children; same-sex relationships and tenancy rights; ‘deeming offences’ and the right to a fair hearing), and the UK (balancing the right to freedom of religious belief and non-discrimination in the provision of charitable services; possession orders and the right to privacy and the home; refugee rights and non-refoulement)
• Information about the Centre’s policy work, including in relation to foreign policy and human rights, the role of parliamentary committees in protecting human rights, the review of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act, and freedom of religion in Samoa
• Updates on the Centre’s casework and litigation, including in relation to a landmark Charter decision on appeal to the High Court of Australia
• Details of forthcoming human rights seminars and events, including the 2010 Human Rights Dinner with Louise Arbour (President, International Crisis Group and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) and the Hon Rob Hulls MP (Deputy Premier of Victoria), a seminar with Prof Philip Alston (UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings, and details of the 2010 Castan Centre Human Rights Conference
• Information about useful human rights resources, including details of HRLRC in the news, and the latest edition of the Alternative Law Journal
• Information about human rights jobs, including with the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
• Updates on major international human rights developments from our foreign correspondent in Geneva, Claire Mahon, Coordinator of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
• ‘If I were Attorney-General’ by Nicky Friedman, Head of Pro Bono and Community Services with Allens Arthur Robinson