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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Nulungu Reconciliation Lecture

Acknowledgements Thank you for your kind welcome and can I reciprocate as I begin today by respecting the Yawuru, the traditional owners of Rubibi the place that is now known as Broome. I thank them for allowing me on their country. I salute the Elders who are here today, those that have gone before...

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

AHRI National Convention and Exhibition

Discover a speech that examines women's workforce participation relating to pregnancy, parental leave, return to work discrimination and sexual harassment.

Category, Speech
Race Discrimination

The Asianisation of Australia?

Keynote speech to Asian Studies Association of Australia Annual Conference, “AsiaScapes: Contesting Borders”

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

New Strategies for Advancing Technology and Gender Equality

New Strategies for Breaking the Mould: Advancing Technology and Gender Equality Elizabeth Broderick Sex Discrimination Commissioner Australian Human Rights Commission Women in Circuits and Systems (WiCAS), Young Professionals Program Reception at International Symposium on Circuits and Systems...

Category, Speech
Rights and Freedoms

The Forgotten Freedoms – Freedom of Religion

It is a great pleasure to deliver a Blackfriars Lecture. A few weeks ago I gave a speech to the Sydney Institute outlining the approach I plan to take to human rights as the Federal Commissioner titled ‘The Forgotten Freedoms’. In this speech I outlined that I have concerns about the key freedoms of expression, worship, association and property rights. Reasserting them will be the focus of my tenure as Human Rights Commissioner.

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

Male Champions of Change – Engaging Male Leaders for Gender Equality

Women Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business: A Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Implications for the Post-2015 Development Agenda. UN Women/UN Global Compact/Australian Government Side Event, Commission on the Status of Women, 58th Session

Category, Speech
Race Discrimination

Free thinking?

Many say freedom of expression means nothing if it doesn’t entail a freedom to offend others. Enjoying such freedom means that you may also have to tolerate hurtful or distasteful speech. But what if the burden of tolerance is not borne equally? What if some forms of speech wound not merely...

Category, Opinion
Sex Discrimination

Engaging Male Leaders for Gender Equality

UN Women National Committee Japan Symposium: Women can participate even more! How Women’s Empowerment Principles will change the future of work

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

Women in the Australian Defence Force

The road that has brought me here today has been a fascinating one - one I have found incredibly rewarding. I had been Sex Discrimination Commissioner for three and a half years before I was asked to formally conduct a Review into the Treatment of Women at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) and in the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

Category, Speech

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