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Launch of NGO Guidelines for Working with Trafficked People The Hon Catherine Branson QC President, Australian Human Rights Commission Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices 70 Phillip Street, Sydney 3 March 2009 I would like to begin by acknowledging the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the...
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Acting Chancellor Mr Stephen Keim SC, Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Coaldrake, Professor the Hon. Michael Lavarch, Executive Dean of Law, other members of the official party, Faculty staff, graduates and your families and friends.
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Discover a speech on settlement services and human rights.
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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.
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Launch of the Supreme Court Equal Treatment Benchbook Banco Court, Supreme Court of Queensland. 15th February, 2006 Remarks of The Hon. John von Doussa QC President, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we are meeting today. It is an...
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I was invited to pick my own topic for discussion. As an ex-judge being invited to speak to students of the law, I assumed that I was expected to speak on something related to the administration of the law from a judge's perspective. And as President of Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), I assumed I was expected to mention the role of human rights promotion in our legal system.
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As the world awaits the birth of the new millenium with a level of anxiety we come to associate with expecting parents, I am pleased to note that the United Nations, in nominating 1999 the International Year of Older Persons, has not, at the last, forgotten the grandparents.
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I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and to pay my respects to their elders both past and present.
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2010 Human Rights Day Oration Australian Human Rights Commission Human Rights Medals and Awards Ceremony The Honourable Catherine Branson QC 10 December 2010 Check against delivery We meet today on the lands of the Gadigal peoples of the Eora nation. On behalf of the Australian Human Rights...
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I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Kaurna people, and pay my respects to their elders past and present.
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A little over a month ago, I started as the new President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, ending my time as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia.
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The topic for discussion is the role of human rights in good governance. Along the way I will touch on HREOC’s perceptions of cultural change at DIMA, legal roadblocks to cultural change, and the importance of human rights principles in the law and policy making process.
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"One Law for All" ALTA NZ 2005, Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference, The Hon John von Doussa, President, Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission, 6 July 2005. In the second century AD, Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, thanked one of his brothers for teaching...
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Set against the wreckage and the unthinkable horror of the Second World War, the Declaration was something of a phoenix rising from the ashes, a document which sought to rekindle a human dignity which had been gravely debased in the preceding ten years.
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To be honest, this is a rare occasion for me. Much of my career has been spent in the monastic cells of academic institutions teaching the young about different legal systems; their origins and growth, their strengths and weaknesses. Your world - the world of business and industry, finances, profit and loss, sales and marketing - is largely foreign to me in a practical sense.
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