Launch of the Human Rights Act for Australia

When: Wednesday 5 October 2005
Time: 6.30pm
Where: Sydney Town Hall

The Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser will launch the campaign. .
He will be accompanied by Professor Larissa Behrendt, Elizabeth Evatt AC, Waleed Aly, Greg Combet, Nahid Karimi, Susan Ryan AO and John Menadue AO.

At the campaign launch the draft Bill that New Matilda has been preparing will be presented to the meeting and a range of prominent human rights experts will address the audience.

Australia is the only Western country that does not have a Human Rights Act. New Matilda's campaign sets out to change that. The campaign has been undertaken in response to concerns about the treatment of asylum seekers and the increased powers that the government has given itself through anti-terror legislation as well as areas such industrial relations reform.

Please feel free to forward this campaign information to colleagues, friends and family. To be successful, this campaign will require the support of individual members of the community and organisations

For more information about the campaign visit
http://www.newmatilda.com/humanrightsact
.