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Grata builds a fairer world by harnessing the power of high impact strategic litigation to create structural change. Democracy works when people can exercise their right to have a voice, including in court, where facts prevail over spin.

Australians are regularly blocked from exercising this basic democratic right because of insurmountable financial barriers to groundbreaking litigation, making it almost impossible to hold powerful governments and corporate leaders accountable.

Grata breaks down these barriers in three keys areas: climate justice, human rights, and democratic freedoms. 

Our campaigns

Human
Rights

Human
Rights

Climate
Justice

Climate
Justice

Democracy
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Freedoms

Democracy
and
Freedoms

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HOW WE MAKE IT HAPPEN

We use a movement lawyering approach, an innovative model of collaborative justice which grew out of the US civil rights movement to build the power of the people, not the power of the law.     

We work alongside affected communities, taking direction from them and centring their voices to build integrated litigation and campaign strategies that tackle injustice.  

We collaborate with legal experts and advocacy partners on strategic public interest cases, remaining accountable to the people and communities we work with.

We have a proven track record of prioritising cases with the potential to break gridlocks and create systemic change with significant sustainable impact for communities.

We collaborate
WE COLLABORATE

WE COLLABORATE

We unite grassroots community movements, bold lawyers, brave champions and civil society organisations who want to challenge unfairness in the courts.
We pinpoint
WE PINPOINT

WE PINPOINT

We work with affected people and communities to pinpoint, support and design cases that can protect or advance groundbreaking rights and freedoms.
We Fund
WE FUND

WE FUND

Our community chips in to fund expensive litigation costs and remove barriers to the power of the court.

LATEST.

Outgoing ministers can no longer keep their secrets buried. What could be unearthed?

March 28, 2024

by Isabelle Reinecke. Published in Crikey.com.  Christian Porter, Scott Morrison, Anthony Albanese. Whose ministerial secrets could be aired after a Federal Court closed a dodgy loophole?

It is time for the government to face the truth: they have given our islands a death sentence

March 27, 2024

By Aunty McRose Elu. Published in The Koori Mail.  My hope is that our leaders will listen to our people and listen to our elders, come with an open mind and an open heart. When leaders act with respect and integrity then we can find...

MEDIA RELEASE: Legal win closes FOI loophole for ministerial reshuffles

March 21, 2024

Governments will no longer be able to use ministerial reshuffles to deny freedom of information (FOI) requests, following a Federal Court win today for transparency campaigner Rex Patrick.

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Eora Nation

We acknowledge the Bedegal and Gadigal Peoples who are Traditional Owners of the land on which we work. We pay our respect to the tens of thousands of years of stories and community life that has thrived in the Eora Nation and to the Elders past, present and emerging. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.