Learn More
Suggested resources for further reading are provided throughout this Report.
To learn more about stateless in Australia, see:
To learn more about the Stateless Legal Clinic, visit the website here.
To learn more about the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, visit the website here.
To learn more about the issue of childhood statelessness in Australia and access to citizenship, see: A
Place to Call Home: Shining a Light on Unmet Legal Need for Stateless Refugee Children in
Australia, co-authored by Katie Robertson and Sarah Dale, available here.
For those keen to learn more on statelessness including its causes and impact, the Peter McMullin
Centre on Statelessness has published a range of easy to read and accessible fact sheets on this topic,
available on the Centre’s website here.
To learn more about the Melbourne Law School Clinics program, visit the website here.
For information on statelessness in Australia, see also:
Katie Robertson, ‘The Stateless Legal Clinic: Innovative Models for Addressing Unmet Legal Need in
Australia through Clinical Legal Education’, International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, Vol 31
No 1 (2024), available here.
Katie Robertson, ‘Centring the Lived Experience of Stateless People in Legal Education,’ Critical
Statelessness Studies Blog June 2024, available here.
Katie Robertson and Michelle Foster, ‘I Have No Rights’: What Happens to Stateless People in
Australia after the High Court’s Ruling?’ The Conversation (2023), available here.
Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Stateless Legal Clinic and Stateless Children Australia
Network (lead author: Katie Robertson), ‘Australia should adopt a Human Rights Act to protect the
rights of stateless people, including children,’ Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on
Human Rights – Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework (June 2023), available here.
Zoe Bell, ‘Experiences of Statelessness and Refugee Protection: Exploring the “Rohingya Life” in
Sydney, Australia’, UNSW, available here.
Katie Robertson, ‘Practical Measures to Meaningfully Implement Article 1(1) of the 1961 Convention
on the Reduction of Statelessness in Australian Law and Practice’, Statelessness and Citizenship
Review, Vol 4 No 1 (2022), available here.
Watch: ‘A Place to Call Home’, available here.
Katie Robertson and Sarah Dale, ‘We Need to Do More to Help Stateless Children Realise Their Right
to Australian Citizenship,’ SBS News (2021) available here.
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