Amnesty International Australia congratulates Prime Minister Albanese and the Federal Labor party for their win at the 2025 federal election.
The second term of Prime Minister Albanese’s Labor government must be one of courage, commitment to advancing the human rights of all Australians and to protecting the international rules-based order abroad.
In returning Labor to power, Australians have firmly rejected Peter Dutton’s demonisation of refugees, threats to cut the humanitarian intake and his fearmongering on Palestinians who have come to Australia on temporary visas to escape Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The Labor government must take this outcome as further confirmation that Australians want refugees, people seeking asylum and people on visas treated with dignity, compassion and fairness.
One of the key issues of this federal election was housing. While the Labor government has promised various small reforms to assist with the housing crisis, it remains the case that the fundamental human right to housing is not formally protected in Australian law.
Amnesty International Australia will continue to push the government to legislate a Human Rights Act that would enshrine the right to housing in law to force a whole-of-society response to support people experiencing homelessness, facing unjust eviction and living in unsafe, crowded housing in remote communities.
Amnesty International Australia will spend the first 100 days of the 48th parliament campaigning for:
- The legislation of a national Human Rights Act that transforms Australia’s approach to human rights, justice and equality.
- Federal leadership in reducing the over-imprisonment of First Nations children and preventing abuse in youth detention centres.
- The adoption of a humane and generous policy to support refugees and people seeking asylum.
- Australia to play a greater role in the protection of international human rights, with particular focus on the genocide in Gaza and the human rights abuses occurring in China, Afghanistan and Myanmar.
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