Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
I begin today by paying my respects to the Wurundjeri peoples, the traditional owners of the land where we gather today. I pay my respects to your elders, to the ancestors and to those who have come before us.
Disability Rights
Diverse and inclusive practice: Redrawing the boundaries Domestic Violence, Disability and Cultural Safety National Forum Brighton-Le-Sands, NSW, 8 - 9 November 2007
Disability Rights
I will not speak in detail about human rights conventions and disability because this topic is addressed by my co-speaker in this session, Karl Lachwitz. I will say though that international human rights law and human rights debate has not yet acknowledged adequately or sufficiently clearly that people with a disability are part of what the "human" in human rights means. Equally, there has not always been enough attention to human rights dimensions in disability discourse.
Sex Discrimination
It is over a year ago, that I stood here for the first time, amidst an economic downturn and wondered whether the long awaited Paid Parental Leave scheme would end up on the cutting room floor.
Sex Discrimination
I am so pleased to be able to welcome you all to the launch of Mechanisms for advancing women’s human rights: A guide to using the Optional Protocol to CEDAW and other international complaint mechanisms.
Sex Discrimination
It is wonderful to be here today at a forum that brings together so many people with different insights on what we need to do to effectively tackle the issue of labour trafficking. Immigration experts, law enforcement officers, labour law specialists, service providers, NGOs, researchers, even human rights lawyers!
Sex Discrimination
Thank you for inviting me to speak this afternoon about the relationship between public policy and demography- policy, demography and destiny. The proposition that public policy can change the composition of our population- its age distribution, its ethnicity or even its class, in other words its demography is, as far as I can see, uncontestable. It has, it can and it will.
Sex Discrimination
It is either in the middle of blazing row, or when you're on the hunt for a business shirt in the ironing basket and find clothes you had forgotten you owned, or when one of you is trying to explain away either your domestic incompetence or the long hours you work.
Sex Discrimination
Future of Work and Public Policy Commissioner Pru Goward 7.30am, 17 July 2003 COMMONWEALTH HEADS SENIOR EXECUTIVE BREAKFAST SEMINAR Parmelia Room, Parmelia Hilton, 14 Mill St Thankyou to the Senior Executive Group for inviting me to speak today, it is always a pleasure to be in your beautiful city...
Sex Discrimination
Fact one, no where in the developed world is paid maternity leave funded a scheme mandating employers to directly pay employees taking maternity leave.
Rights and Freedoms
I would like to welcome everybody to the launch of Rights of Passage: A Dialogue with Young Australians about Human Rights. I thank you all for coming.
Rights and Freedoms
Speech given by Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM, Human Rights Commissioner at the 2nd Public Health Association of Australia Incarceration Conference. Wednesday 2 April 2003 at the Mercure Hotel Brisbane
Commission – General
Thank you for inviting me here today, to speak about a topic which in my view receives too little attention yet is one of critical importance not only to the way we live but to the kind of society we live in – the topic of human rights education.
Commission – General
I would like to begin by acknowledging the Elders and Traditional Owners of Darwin, the Larrakia People, and to thank them for the opportunity to visit this beautiful part of the country. After that very heartfelt welcome to country, I feel very privileged to be here this morning.
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