www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/ sep/17/human-rights-commission-says-nationalcabinet-should-not-be-covered-by-secrecylaws>. 16 See, eg, Elias Visontay, ‘More than 45,000 Australians stranded overseas registered for government help’ The Guardian (Online) 21 September 2021 <https://www.theguardian. com/business/2021/sep/21/more-than-45000australians-stranded-overseas-registered-forgovernment-help>. 17 Daniel Hurst, ‘UN raises serious human rights concerns over Australia’s India travel ban’ The Guardian (Online) 5 May 2021 <https://www. theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/05/ un-raises-serious-human-rights-concerns-overaustralia-india-travel-ban>. 18 The Chief Medical Officer’s advice on the implementation of the travel restrictions stated that potential consequences for Australians stranded in India included a risk of serious illness without access to health care and, in the worstcase scenario, death: Senate Select Committee on COVID-19, Final Report (April 2022) [3.28]. 19 Senate Select Committee on COVID-19, Final Report (April 2022) [3.19]. 20 ‘Vaccination numbers and statistics’ Department of Health (Web Page) <https://www.health.gov. au/initiatives-and-programs/covid-19-vaccines/ numbers-statistics>. 21 See Michael Buckland, Felix Zerbib and Connor Wherrett, Counting the cost of Australia’s delayed vaccine rollout (APO Report, April 2021) <https://apo.org.au/node/311761>. 22 ‘Australia: Protect At-Risk Communities from Covid-19’ Human Rights Watch (Web Page, August 2021) <https://www.hrw.org/ news/2021/08/19/australia-protect-riskcommunities-covid-19#>; ‘PM urged to address low Indigenous vaccination rates’ Australian National University (Web Page, 29 October 2021) <https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/pmurged-to-address-low-indigenous-vaccinationrates>. 23 ‘Call for National Plan as children tell of lockdown toll’ UNICEF (Web Page, 25 October 2021) <https://www.unicef.org.au/about-us/media/ october-2021/call-for-national-plan-as-childrentell-of-lockdow>; Kids Helpline and the Australian Human Rights Commission, Impacts of COVID-19 on children and young people who contact Kids Helpline (September 2020) <https://humanrights. gov.au/our-work/childrens-rights/publications/ impacts-covid-19-children-and-young-peoplewho-contact-kids>. 24 Senate Select Committee on COVID-19, Final Report (April 2022) [4.63]. 25 ‘Australia: Protect At-Risk Communities from Covid-19’ Human Rights Watch (Web Page, August 2021) <https://www.hrw.org/ news/2021/08/19/australia-protect-riskcommunities-covid-19#>; ‘Australia: Prisoners Denied Vaccine Access’ Human Rights Watch (Web Page, September 2021) <https://www.hrw. org/news/2021/09/01/australia-prisoners-deniedvaccine-access>; Denham Sadler, ‘Delays in vaccinating prisoners’ The Saturday Paper (online, 12 June 2021) <https://www.thesaturdaypaper. com.au/news/politics/2021/06/12/delaysvaccinating-prisoners/162342000011860>. 26 See Australian Human Rights Commission, Management of COVID-19 risks in immigration detention (June 2021) <https://humanrights. gov.au/our-work/asylum-seekers-andrefugees/publications/management-covid-19risks-immigration-detention>; Ben Doherty, ‘”Rampant”: fears over growing Covid outbreak at Sydney’s Villawood detention centre’ The Guardian (Online) 13 January 2022 <https:// www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/ jan/13/rampant-nearly-70-people-have-covidat-sydneys-villawood-detention-centre-sourcessay>. 27 Diane Taylor, ‘Home Office releases 300 from detention centres amid Covid-19 pandemic’, The Guardian (online) 22 March 2020. 28 Senate Select Committee on COVID-19, Final Report (April 2022) [4.46]. 29 Senate Select Committee on COVID-19, Final Report (April 2022) [2.78]. 30 ‘Statement of concern: The response to the COVID-19 pandemic for people with disability’ Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (Web Page, 26 March 2020) <https://disability. royalcommission.gov.au/publications/statementconcern-response-covid-19-pandemic-peopledisability>. 31 Senate Select Committee on COVID-19, Final Report (April 2022) Recommendation 1. 32 Senate Select Committee on COVID-19, Final Report (April 2022) Recommendation 2. 33 Human Rights Act 1998 (UK) s 6. 34 British Institute of Human Rights submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Call for Evidence: Independent Review of the Human Rights Act, March 2021 <https://www.bihr.org.uk/ Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=6efd6aef-3bc34c75-867c-d744ede5d0c9>. 35 Human Rights Law Centre, Charters of Human Rights make our lives Better: 101 Cases showing how (2022) <https://www.hrlc.org.au/ reports/2022/6/2/charters-of-human-rightsmake-our-lives-better> Original source: Victorian Ombudsman, Investigation into the detention and treatment of public housing residents arising from a COVID-19 ‘hard lockdown’ in July 2020, 2020, Inner Melbourne Community Legal Centre. 36 Human Rights Law Centre, Charters of Human Rights make our lives Better: 101 Cases showing how (2022) <https://www.hrlc.org. au/reports/2022/6/2/charters-of-humanrights-make-our-lives-better> Original source: Queensland Human Rights Commission, The Second Annual Report on the Operation of Queensland’s Human Rights Act 2020–21, 157. 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