MEDIA RELEASE: New resource launched to track ongoing COVID-19 measures that impact on civil liberties
May 21, 2020Grata Fund, in partnership with law firm Hall and Wilcox is today launching the COVID-19 Law Monitor, a resource for journalists and civil society to track COVID-19 measures introduced by governments that impacts on...
MEDIA RELEASE: Greater integrity measures required for Covid Commission say former judges and legal groups
May 13, 2020Today, a former Victorian Court of Appeal judge Anthony Whealy, and law and integrity groups, including the Centre for Public Integrity, Grata Fund, Transparency International, PIAC, Amnesty International, Human Rights Law Centre and The...
MEDIA RELEASE: Covid-19: Extraordinary powers must be balanced with strong parliament and courts says report
April 07, 2020A report released today by Grata Fund lays out a road map for the Government to maintain public trust through the management of the COVID-19 crisis. Within a matter of weeks of Covid-19 hitting...
MEDIA RELEASE: Parliamentary scrutiny of COVID-19 response is vital in public health emergency: Civil society and legal groups
April 02, 2020Eight legal and civil society groups have today called on the Australian Senate to establish a Select Committee with broad powers to review and report on the Federal Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
MEDIA RELEASE: Housing test case in NT Supreme Court today could set unprecedented legal standards for remote communities
December 10, 2019Aboriginal people living in remote communities living in appalling conditions in the NT are closely observing the developments of the Santa Teresa landmark test case that will be heard in the NT Supreme Court...
MEDIA RELEASE: Remote Aboriginal community wins safe housing in class action against NT Government
October 22, 2019Residents in the Aboriginal community of Santa Teresa will finally be compensated for the NT Government’s failure to maintain housing to a safe and healthy level after the Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal...
MEDIA RELEASE: Remote housing litigation in NT Supreme Court adjourned
October 16, 2019Residents of Santa Teresa are left to wait more months for their housing complaints to be resolved following an adjournment of the Supreme Court hearing this morning. Dan Kelly, Solicitor for ALRAR said, “The...
MEDIA RELEASE: Landmark remote housing litigation reaches the NT Supreme Court
October 15, 2019Aboriginal people living in remote communities living in appalling conditions in the NT are closely observing the developments of the Santa Teresa landmark test case that will be heard in the NT Supreme Court...
OPINION: New "espionage" laws could capture the critical work NGOs and advocates do in holding governments to account
July 09, 2019Today, for the first time ever and in a demonstration of unity, ABC, News Corp, and Nine Entertainment executives will speak at the National Press Club about freedom of the press. This is a...
MEDIA RELEASE: W + J / Adani hearing today shows how big corporate money can lock out First Nations communities from accessing their rights
May 27, 2019Today the Federal Court of Australia will hear the case from Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners who oppose the Adani Carmichael mine development on their lands. Adrian Burragubba and Wangan and Jagalingou community members...
OPINION: High Court decision could spell trouble for the right to protest
April 11, 2019Yesterday morning, in a victory for women, the High Court upheld laws that establish 150 metre safe access zones around abortion providers in Victoria and Tasmania. Similar laws exist in NSW. The decision affirms...
LAW SOCIETY JOURNAL: Law Society Journal Features Grata Fund Founder
February 08, 2019Six Minutes with Isabelle Reinecke, Law Society Journal, February 2019
MEDIA RELEASE: W&J appeal will hold Adani accountable to Australian law
January 25, 2019The UN has requested that construction of the Adani Carmichael mine be suspended until Adani obtains the consent of the Traditional Owners, the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) People, which is currently the subject of...
MEDIA RELEASE: Traditional owners appeal Adani Mine
January 25, 2019Adani coal mine should be suspended, UN says, until all traditional owners support the project. The United Nations has asked the Australian Government to consider suspending the Adani project in central Queensland until it...
OPINION: Your fetus is precious but not a person, no matter what Fred Nile says
November 16, 2018Currently, NSW law allows for a person to be charged with causing grievous bodily harm to a pregnant woman - and that includes harm to her fetus. But there is no separate crime regarding the...
MEDIA RELEASE: Grata Fund calls for adverse cost reform in submission to Australian Law Reform Commission inquiry
August 01, 2018The Australian Law Reform Commission's current Inquiry into Class Action Proceedings and Third Party Litigation Funding raises important questions about the role of funders in enabling access to justice in Australia. Grata Fund's submission...
FEATURE: People Powered Justice, Grata Fund
June 07, 2018"Stories in Philanthropy", Nicole Richards, Philanthropy Australia, June 2018 Isabelle Reinecke was a ponytailed primary schooler when she began standing up for the rights of others. Protesting federal funding cuts to the ABC which...
OPINION: We need to trust women in NSW to make reproductive decisions, not judge them
December 29, 2017For an abortion to be legal in NSW, a doctor must believe that continuing the pregnancy or raising the child would pose a serious danger to the woman's life or physical or mental health....
OPINION: Australia's shame on a stage for the world to witness
May 10, 2017"Australia's shame on stage for the world to witness", Jennifer Robinson, The Sydney Morning Herald It's not every day you get invited to speak on the stage of New York's Lincoln Centre between the...
AUSTRALIAN LAWYERS ALLIANCE: Opening the doors to public interest litigation
March 16, 2016"Opening the doors to public interest litigation", Eliza Ginnivan, Australian Lawyers Alliance Sometimes when it rains, it really buckets down. In just one week in June 2015, courts in two continents delivered landmark public...