Media releases
JOINT RELEASE: The Albanese Government kills off its own FOI secrecy bill in the face of political defeat
March 05, 2026Joint release with Grata, Whistleblower Justice Fund, Human Rights Law Centre, Alliance for Journalists' Freedom, Australia Institute, Justice and Equity Centre Today at 9:30am the Labor Government tossed its own controversial Freedom of Information...
MEDIA RELEASE: Confronting scenes of police violence against protestors must be investigated
February 11, 2026Grata is deeply concerned by documented scenes of police violence against protesters in Sydney on Monday.
MEDIA RELEASE: NT Government’s proposal to remove consultation for tenants undermines Closing the Gap goals, ignores substance of High Court ruling
February 04, 2026Joint release with Grata and Australian Lawyers for Remote Aboriginal Rights (ALRAR)
STATEMENT: Attack on First Nations People at Boorloo Invasion Day protest
January 30, 2026Grata condemns the targeted act of violence against First Nations People and their allies peacefully protesting in Boorloo (Perth). We stand alongside First Nations People in Boorloo, and across the country, many of whom...
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY: Today, we pay our respects to First Nations communities across the continent that are mourning today.
January 26, 2026Today, we pay our respects to First Nations communities across the continent that are mourning today. We honour the resistance of First Nations communities that has been ongoing since invasion. Today is not a...
MEDIA RELEASE: Minns attempt to outlaw protest and usurp the courts will make us all unsafe
December 20, 2025Premier Minns has announced plans to rush laws through parliament in an extraordinary sitting that would outlaw mass protests and drastically remove impartial judicial oversight, forcing a divisive political conversation while communities are raw...
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY: We stand together, against hate
December 16, 2025Across the country, our hearts are shattered. We share love and care with everyone experiencing the shock, grief and fear caused by the anti-Semitic terrorist attack at Chanukha celebrations in Bondi on Sunday 14...
MEDIA RELEASE: Landmark High Court judgment undoes steep NT Government rent hikes
December 03, 2025Joint release with Grata and Australian Lawyers for Remote Aboriginal Rights (ALRAR)This morning, four First Nations remote renters won their case unanimously in the High Court, successfully invalidating the Northern Territory Government’s widely-criticised ‘Remote...
MEDIA RELEASE: Australian Government to face more climate scrutiny in appeal of landmark Torres Strait case
November 11, 2025Torres Strait community leaders, Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai, will today file an appeal in the Full Federal Court for their landmark duty of care negligence case, Pabai Pabai & Anor v...
'The Verdict': Grata's Monthly Newsletter, October 2025
November 05, 2025MEDIA ALERT: Aunty McRose Elder, Torres Strait Elder, available for comment on North West Gas Shelf approval
September 12, 2025Today the Albanese government announced formal approval of the extension of the Woodside North West Gas Shelf project to 2070, the centrepiece of the most polluting fossil fuel project in the southern hemisphere.
Federal Court says climate change poses an “existential threat to all of humanity,” despite finding law does not “currently” support claim
July 15, 2025Impacts of human induced climate change laid bare in Federal Court judgement in Uncle Paul and Uncle Pabai landmark Australian Climate Case today.
A moment of reckoning on climate harm: Decision due on Uncle Pabai and Uncle Paul's Australian Climate Case
June 30, 2025The decision on this landmark case will be handed down at the Federal Court sitting in CAIRNS, TUESDAY 15 JULY.
NT’s Top Court upholds controversial remote rent increases
January 24, 2025JOINT RELEASE: The spotlight is on how the NT government will respond to the cost of living crisis following today’s NT Court of Appeal decision that upheld the Government’s controversial ‘remote rent framework’, which...
MEDIA RELEASE: Ms Grover attempts to overturn Federal Court finding that she discriminated against Ms Tickle because she is a trans woman
October 03, 2024In August this year, the Federal Court affirmed Ms Roxanne Tickle’s right to be treated with dignity and respect, finding that Giggle for Girls women’s app and its owner Ms Sally Grover indirectly discriminated...
MEDIA ALERT: Legal challenge over WA Government’s remote housing neglect and rent hikes to be heard today, could lead to nation-wide precedent
September 24, 2024Ms Jacobs, a First Nations public housing tenant living in the remote Pilbara town of Wakathuni will have her test case against the WA Housing Authority heard today, in what could set a state-wide...
MEDIA RELEASE: “One of the most significant reforms to access to justice in a generation”: Costs Protection Bill passes Federal Parliament
September 19, 2024As the key architect of new costs protection, Grata celebrates major reforms for victims of discrimination which passed the Senate today.
MEDIA RELEASE: Tickle v Giggle: The Federal Court finds it is unlawful to discriminate against a woman because she is trans
August 23, 2024Today, the Federal Court has affirmed Ms Roxanne Tickle’s right to be treated with dignity and respect, finding that Giggle for Girls women’s app and its owner Ms Sally Grover indirectly discriminated against her...