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Children

Towards healing - submission to Royal Commission Issues Paper 2

AHRC response to Working With Children Check

Children in immigration detention page

Tuesday 9 July, 2013

Learn how the majority of children in immigration detention arrived in Australia by boat and that many came with family members but some arrived alone.

Human rights and the Internet

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The Internet provides unparalleled opportunities for the promotion and advancement of certain rights

Privileging the voice of children in family law

I want to start by sharing with you the views of 14-year-old Rani who was – as part of a custody case – the subject of a lengthy dispute about contact. Rani had an independent children’s lawyer and a family report to present ‘her best interests’ to the judge. However she still felt totally excluded from the decision-making process.