84 The Plan focuses on sexual assault and domestic and family violence in the context of intimate partner violence. It does not account for structural and institutional forms of gender-based violence related to law, state and culture women with disability experience and are more at risk of – i.e. reproductive rights violations and violence occurring in residential institutions. See, and Australian Civil Society Shadow Report (n 64). 85 Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Concluding observations on the eighth periodic report of Australia, UN Doc CEDAW/C/AUS/CO/8 (25 July 2018) [52]; Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding observations of the eighteenth to twentieth periodic reports of Australia, Un Doc CERD/C/AUS/CO/18-20 (26 December 2017) [28]; and Dubravka Šimonović, End of Mission statement by United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against women, its causes and consequences, on her visit to Australia from 13 to 27 February 2017 (27 February 2017). 86 National Advocacy Group on Women on Temporary Visas Experiencing Violence, Blueprint for Reform: Removing Barriers to Safety for Victims/Survivors of Domestic and Family Violence who are on Temporary Visas (Report, 2019). 87 Mercy Foundation et al, Retiring into Poverty: A National Plan For Change: Increasing Housing Security for Older Women (Report, August 2018). 88 Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019 (Qld); Right to Farm Act 2019 (NSW). Tasmania will also likely introduce similar laws: see Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Amendment Bill 2019 (TAS). 89 Lorna Knowles et al., ‘ABC Raid: AFP Leave Ultimo Building with Files after Hours-Long Raid over Afghan Files Stories’, ABC News (online, 6 June 2019). 90 Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), division 91. 91 There have been secret prosecutions of former intelligence officer Witness K and his lawyer Bernard Collaery, who revealed that Australia bugged the offices of East Timorese negotiators during oil and gas negotiations. See James Massola, ‘PM Dismisses Questions over Prosecution of ‘Witness K’ and Lawyer’ Sydney Morning Herald (online, 30 August 2019). The prosecution of Collaery may be in breach of the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers. In addition, Australia has not applied diplomatic pressure on the UK to prevent the extradition of Julian Assange to the USA, despite the underlying allegations cited in support of the charges include acts of common journalistic practice. 92 The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, the national elected Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representative body, lost its federal government funding in 2014 and was wound up in 2019 as a result. 93 Ibid, the Indigenous Peoples Organisation (IPO), which coordinates Indigenous advocacy at the United Nations, lost its annual $100,000 funding to support Indigenous participation at United Nations fora in 2014. 94 National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Act 2018 (Cth). 95 Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 (Cth); Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 (Cth). 96 Identity-matching Services Bill 2019 and Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2019 (Cth). At local and State level, governments and corporations have already rolled out facial recognition. 97 See Australian Citizenship Act 2007 (Cth) ss 32A-36A. The Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Cessation) Bill 2019 is also currently before the Australian Parliament, which could render the Act inconsistent with Australia’s international obligations and provide inadequate protections in ensuring the reduction and prevention of statelessness. See Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Submission No 19 to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Review of the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizen Cessation) Bill 2019 (16 October 2019). 98 Cox Inall Ridgeway, Review of the Indigenous Legal Assistance Program (ILAP) 2015-2020 (Final Report, February 2019). 99 Productivity Commission, Access to Justice Arrangements (Inquiry Report No 72, 5 September 2014) vol 2, 738–9. 100 See e.g., Report of the Royal Commission and Board of Inquiry into the protection and detention of children in the Northern Territory, 17 November 2017, Canberra; Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding observations on the combined fifth and sixth periodic reports of Australia, UN Doc CRC/C/AUS/CO/5-6 (1 November 2019) [47]-[48]; Human Rights Watch I needed help, instead I was punished’ Abuse and Neglect of Prisoners with Disabilities in Australia 2018 https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/australia0218_web.pdf; and the Prisons section of this Report. 101 See, e.g., Report of the Royal Commission and Board of Inquiry into the protection and detention of children in the Northern Territory, (Final Report, 17 November 2017); Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding observations on the combined fifth and sixth periodic reports of Australia, UN Doc CRC/C/AUS/CO/5-6 (1 November 2019) [47]-[48]. 102 See The Office of the Public Guardian, Queensland Annual Report 2018–19 (Report, 2019) 9; see also Australian Civil Society Shadow Report (n 64) and CPRD Concluding Observations on Australia, UN Doc CRPD/C/AUS/CO/2-3 (n 61). 103 The Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on all States Parties to raise their minimum age to at least 14 and has specifically urged Australia to do so: Committee on the Rights of the Child, General comment No. 24 (2019) on children’s rights in the child justice system, UN Doc CRC/C/GC/24 (18 September 2019) [22]; Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding observations on the combined fifth and sixth periodic reports of Australia, UN Doc CRC/C/AUS/CO/5-6 (1 November 2019) [48(a)]. Numerous other UN committees and entities have called on Australia to raise its minimum age of criminal responsibility in line with international standards: see, e.g., Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding observations on the eighteenth to twentieth periodic reports of Australia, UN Doc CERD/C/AUS/CO/18-20 (26 December 2017) [26(a)]; Human Rights Committee, Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Australia, UN Doc CCPR/C/AUS/CO/6 (1 December 2017) [44]; Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous peoples on her visit to Australia, UN Doc A/HRC/36/46/Add.2 (n 9) [77] and [113(i)]. 104 Manfred Nowak, Global study on children deprived of liberty, UN Doc A/74/136 (11 July 2019). 105 In 2016 Australian Governments tabled the Working Group on the Treatment of People Unfit to Plead or Found Not Guilty by reason of Mental Impairment, Draft National Statement of Principles Relating to Persons Unfit to Plead or Found Not Guilty By Reason of Cognitive or Mental Health Impairment . However, three years later, these Principles are yet to be consulted on, endorsed or implemented. In 2016 the Australian Senate also tabled the Community Affairs References Committee, Inquiry Report into the Indefinite Detention of People with Cognitive and Psychiatric Impairment 30