Peter Garlett

• ‘Too great a cost’: The High Court’s ruling in the Garlett appeal highlights the need for a Human Rights Act

  13th Oct 2022

  ‘The Garlett High Court case shows the urgent need for a federal Human Rights Act and even constitutional protection of human rights by way of a Charter or Bill of Rights. Indefinite detention such as that sought in relation to Peter Garlett is a form of arbitrary detention … Aboriginal incarceration must only happen as a matter of last resort’ write Dr Hannah McGlade and Dr Harry Hobbs.