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This edition of the Bulletin, which is proudly sponsored by Mallesons Stephen Jaques, includes:

• An opinion piece on how Australia could set the global agenda in the area of business and human rights
• Human Rights News, including in relation to Australian legislation to comprehensively prohibit torture and the death penalty, the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights on the NT Intervention, the release of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Report, a major UN conference to be held in Melbourne, the nomination of an Australian Aboriginal academic and advocate to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and the appointment of a new Australian Ambassador to the UN in Geneva
• Updates on National Charters of Rights, including an opinion piece about how a Human Rights Act could unite us, and a summary of Churchill’s Legacy: The Conservative Case for a Human Rights Act 
• Updates on the Victorian Charter of Rights, including an analysis of recent Statements of Compatibility and a new article on statutory interpretation
• Victorian Charter case notes – there are no Victorian Charter cases on which to report this month (so much for the ‘flood of litigation’)
• Comparative law case notes on significant recent human rights decisions from Canada (prison conditions and the treatment of remand prisoners, government obligation to protect human rights of citizens abroad), the European Court of Human Rights (stop and search powers and the right to privacy, deportation and the right to family life) and the UK (torture and the rule of law, control orders and the right to a fair hearing, legality of detention under transfer agreement when trial abroad unfair, right to a fair hearing and legal representation in disciplinary proceedings, anonymity in court proceedings and open justice)
• Information about the Centre’s policy work, including in relation to public housing and the right to adequate housing in Victoria, proposed amendments to the Northern Territory Intervention, and a human rights-based approach to income management
• Updates on the Centre’s casework and litigation, including in relation to an intervention in coronial proceedings
• Details of forthcoming human rights seminars and events, including PILCH training on the promotion and protection of women’s rights
• 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 Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic)
• 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 Stephen Keim SC, Queensland barrister and recipient of the 2009 Human Rights Medal