July 2014
- Chair’s tabling statements
- Report cycles
- Bill deferrals
- New PJCHR members
- Asylum-seeker behaviour code dodges disallowance (by a mile)
- PJCHR’s external legal adviser delivers Annual Kirby Lecture
August 2014
- Joining the dots with migration instruments
- Human rights champions or silent witnesses? (1)
- PJCHR Chair signals support for plan to resurrect legislation to repeal s 18C RDA
- PJCHR calling (softly) for submissions to Stronger Futures follow-up inquiry
- Human rights champions or silent witnesses? (2): a comparison with the UK JCHR
- Immediate call by PJCHR that migration amendments are incompatible with non-refoulement obligations
- The PJCHR, legislative instruments … and some nitpicking
- Joining the dots between bills and legislative instruments
September 2014
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (1-4 September)
- Bill deferrals: update
- The missing human rights dimension of the FOFA amendments
- Eyes wide shut
- Bill comment ratio
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (22-25 September)
- FOFA amendments – update
- S 18C RDA amendments back on the table
- PJCHR drops the ball on first ‘tranche’ of national security amendments
- PJCHR in the news – as findings of incompatibility escalate
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (30 September-2 October)
October 2014
- New PJCHR member
- PJCHR’s external legal adviser steps down
- Sitting fortnight wrap-up
- A tale of two bills
- Bill deferrals and comment ratio: update
- International vs Australian Rules: The PJCHR and the Government are playing in different codes
- The latest lowdown on legislative instruments
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (27-30 October)
- PJCHR’s new external legal adviser
November 2014
- Government’s controversial migration amendments in the PJCHR’s crosshairs
- Some self-scrutiny in Victoria
- What elephant?
- Finding (in)compatibility: business as usual or a new path for the PJCHR?
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (17-19 November)
- 3 reasons to applaud the PJCHR’s report on the data retention bill
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (24-27 November)
- Quick update – and a first dissenting report
- Upcoming event: seminar on PJCHR
December 2014
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (1-4 December)
- Opening Pandora’s Box
- Bill deferrals: 2012-2014
- Legislative instruments: 2012-2014
- Bill comment ratio: 2012-2014
- Findings of incompatibility in the 44th Parliament
- Final chart update (really)
January 2015
- PJCHR Chair renews push for s18C RDA amendments in wake of Charlie Hebdo attack
- PJCHR’s external legal adviser says using Charlie Hebdo attack to revisit s18C RDA is “nothing but sheer opportunism”
February 2015
- The 5Cs of (successful) human rights scrutiny
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (9-12 February)
- Three strikes
- The curious case of the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 2014 and the PJCHR’s assessment of bills as giving rise to ‘no human rights concerns’
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (23-26 February)
March 2015
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (2-5 March)
- Unpicking dissensus
- Quick update
- Philip Ruddock joins the PJCHR
- New PJCHR Chair
- PJCHR in the news: why consensus matters
- Not crystal ball gazing
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (16-19 March)
- Mr Ruddock: “No, I have no report at this stage”
- Mr Ruddock: “Today I do have a report”
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (23-26 March)
- Quick update: Report 21/44th
May 2015
June 2015
- Rundown on Report 22/44th
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (15-18 June)
- Another week, another delay
- Quick update: Report 23/44th
- PJCHR red flags: Bills scheduled for debate (22-25 June)
July 2015
August 2015
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