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ParentsNext, including its trial and subsequent broader rollout (2019)

Summary

ParentsNext is a compulsory ‘pre-employment’ program applied to targeted recipients of the Parenting Payment. It can result in the suspension, reduction or permanent cancellation of a person’s Parenting Payment for non-compliance.

ParentsNext is a compulsory ‘pre-employment’ program applied to targeted recipients of the Parenting Payment. It can result in the suspension, reduction or permanent cancellation of a person’s Parenting Payment for non-compliance.

Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018

1. Executive summary

  1. The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) makes this submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, in response to its review of the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 (Cth) (the Bill).

Migration (Validation of Port Appointment) Bill 2018

 

1 Introduction

1. The Commission makes this submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee in relation to the Migration (Validation of Port Appointment) Bill 2018 (Cth) (the Bill) introduced by the Australian Government.

2 Summary

2. The Commission welcomes the opportunity to make a submission in relation to this Bill.

AM v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) 2018

Date

[2018] AusHRC 124

Report into Arbitrary Detention

CW v Commonwealth (Department of Home Affairs) 2018

Date

[2018] AusHRC 126

AG v Commonwealth (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) 2018

Date

[2018] AusHRC 123

Report into discrimination in employment on the basis of criminal record

Ms Jessica Smith v Redflex Traffic Systems Pty Ltd (2018)

Date

[2018] AusHRC 125
Report into discrimination in employment on the basis of criminal record

‘Vulnerability and the Law’ - UNSW

27 September 2018

University of New South Wales Law Journal Launch of Thematic Issue on ‘Vulnerability and the Law’ Vol 41(3) 2018

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Lawyer urges justice diversion for Indigenous youth

By Siobhan Ryan

David Woodroffe, Principal Legal Officer for the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA), says diverting Aboriginal children away from the criminal justice system must be the priority of Northern Territory legal reform.

Child protection was David’s main motivation for entering the legal field, as his father and grandmother were both part of the stolen generation.

“For many Aboriginal lawyers, their family’s history is really what drives them to go into the law,” David said.

AZ v The Commonwealth (Department of Home Affairs) (2018)

Date

[2018] AusHRC 122