Rights Limited: human rights in Victoria in the time of COVID-19

What are your human rights? Where do they come from? And what happens when they are constrained?

Held online in October 2020, the Forum explored the impact and implications of COVID-19 on our human rights.

The COVID-19 restrictions have put our human rights in the spotlight like never before. We are all living with tension between our rights as individuals and our responsibilities as members of our community.

For people living in the public housing towers in North Melbourne and Flemington, however, the scales were tipped decisively when they lost all the freedoms we normally take for granted. Human rights protection is suddenly very real and very local.

Could the current debate lead to an Australian national charter or bill of rights? And what difference would that make?