HUMAN RIGHTS OF AUSTRALIA

The system of justice was continuing without protecting the indigenous persons, especially to the children and girls, and had raised rates of incarceration and reports of abuses and deaths under custody.

RIGHTS OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

The indigenous minors had 24 times more probabilities of being stopped that not aborigens; and in Queensland's condition 17-year-old teenagers were judged as if they were adult and they were imprisoned together with them. In November, the government of this condition approved the legislation to change this situation, solved that the detention of minors in a jail for adults was illegal and ordered that one should move them to a minors' reformatory.

REFUGEE PERSONS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS

The Supreme Court solved that the detention of about 900 men imprisoned in the centers managed by Australia was illegal, and arranged his immediate closing. On having concluded the year, no government had publicized the closing date of the centers.

LESBIANS' RIGHTS, GAYS, BISEXUALS, TRANSGÉNERO AND INTERSEXUAL.

In Australia, it was continuing without there being a law on equality of access to the marriage. In agreement with the in force legislation, only the marriage was allowed between a man and a woman El conservative government of Australia promised to organize at the end of year a referendum on the legalization of the marriage between persons of the same sex if it gains the next choices, foreseen between September and November.

SAFETY AND ANTITERRORIST MEASURES

Appeared and approved new legislative offers as for fight against the terrorism. Between the approved offers an order of maintenance was appearing in detention that was allowing to prolong the imprisonment once fulfilled the sentence.