The Red Lines Package was developed through a collaborative process involving independent legal experts, senior practicing lawyers, and academic specialists in public and international law, alongside policy researchers, industry-based professionals, and human rights advocates.
The package is grounded in international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and principles of state and corporate accountability, and is designed to operate effectively within domestic legislative frameworks while giving effect to Australia’s international obligations.
This multidisciplinary approach reflects a commitment to legal integrity, independence, and the rule of law, and translates moral imperatives into clear, enforceable legal safeguards rather than symbolic or political statements.
Sara is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. Her expertise is in public international law, international human rights law, and international migration and refugee law. She is the author of Administering Migration: International Law and the Global Ordering of People (forthcoming: Cambridge University Press), and a Chief Investigator on an ARC-funded project on refugee jurists’ contributions to Australian law.
Sara contributed to the Red Lines Package by drafting and reviewing the first iteration of the bills, drawing on her expertise in international human rights law, state responsibility, and the international sanctions regime, including the context of the Arms Trade Treaty. She is committed to the project’s broader aim of strengthening legal frameworks that support the right of all people to self-determination and to live free from apartheid, genocide, and illegal occupation; that protect displaced and marginalised communities; and that advance accountability for mass atrocities.
Associate Professor Sara Dehm
Sophie is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT School of Law. Her expertise is in international criminal law, public international law, and Indigenous peoples and the state. Sophie is the author of Fairness and Rights in International Criminal Procedure (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). She has also previously served as the Chair of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (UK), and as a Director of Amnesty International Australia.
Sophie contributed to the drafting and review of the first iteration of the Red Lines Package bills, and she is strongly committed to advancing legal avenues against genocide, and to ensuring that Australia meets its obligations under international law.
Dr Sophie Rigney
Elliot is a Lecturer in Law at Monash University and RMIT, teaching predominantly in public law and international law. His research focuses on the political economy of peacebuilding and war. He is the author of Making War Safe for Capitalism (Bristol University Press, 2025), and has previously worked as a lawyer and medical doctor.
Elliot helped draft the Red Lines Package’s Treasury Laws Amendment Bill. He strongly believes that international accountability and action is crucial in stopping Israel's genocide against Palestinians, and that Australia must cut all political, economic, and trade links that facilitate violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Dr Elliot Dolan-Evans
Rita is a solicitor working across discrimination, employment, charity, human rights, sanctions, and international law. Her achievements include successful strategic litigation against former Senator Fraser Anning and the social-media platform X, contributing to the National Apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples as a ministerial adviser, and helping to develop an anti-dehumanisation framework that provides a universal standard for adjudicating complaints relating to hate speech, racism, and other forms of prejudice for employers and public institutions.
She contributed to the Red Lines Package through drafting, research, and coordination, and has worked on three of its bills.
Rita Jabri Markwell
