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...
OPINION: Citizens must be able to challenge government power
November 30, 2015"Citizens must be able to challenge government power", Jennifer Robinson, The Sydney Morning Herald Governments are conducting unprecedented surveillance, with increased intelligence powers and interceptions of online communications. Recent mandatory data retention laws and...