Human Rights

PAST CASE: Excessive force against refugees: November 15, 2023: Yasir* bravely challenged Border Force for the harmful use of restraints on those in immigration detention which has been condemned by medical professionals and human rights experts.
PAST CASE: Clean water for the remote First Nations community of Laramba: October 02, 2023: Families from Laramba secured a landmark victory in the NT Supreme Court to uphold their basic human right to safe drinking water. The decision secures the legal right to safe drinking water for all Indigenous…
PAST CASE: Inquest into Veronica Nelson’s death: August 16, 2023: Veronica Nelson died in January 2020, after four days in a police cell. During the coronial inquest into Ms Nelson’s death, the Grata community made it possible for First Nations experts to give evidence….
PAST CASE: The Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) community’s fight for housing rights: August 15, 2023: The Eastern Arrernte community of Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) in the NT has been fighting for decent housing since 2015. With the support of the Grata community, they took on the NT government in…
PAST CASE: Hannah and Catherine’s fight to protect kids on the Autism Spectrum at school: July 13, 2020: It takes a village to raise a child and it takes an even bigger village to make a change like this. The Grata village kicked in to support Catherine and her mum secure the…
PAST CASE: Supporting people locked in refugee detention during COVID-19: April 22, 2020: The Grata Community chipped in so that Mahmoud* could start legal proceedings against Home Affairs Minister Dutton about his duty of care to protect people in detention from the COVID-19 pandemic. The proceedings meant…
PAST CASE: Adrian Burragubba’s Adani Appeal: March 27, 2019: Adrian Burragubba and members of the Wangan & Jagalingou people (W&J), the Traditional Owners of the land in Queensland’s Galilee Basin have been fighting to protect their land from the Adani Carmichael mine. When…
PAST CASE: Graeme and Nadia take on CommBank for disability discrimination: March 16, 2018: In 2018 disability advocates, Graeme and Nadia, bravely challenged CommBank’s inaccessible EFTPOS technology in court. With the backing of Grata Fund and the expert team at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre they forced CommBank…
PAST CASE: Doctors4Refugees challenge ‘gag laws’ about conditions in offshore detention: August 14, 2017: In 2015 the Australian Government introduced gag laws that penalised Australian doctors with up to two years in jail for speaking out about horrific conditions faced by 1,262 men, women and children in offshore…