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Illustration of diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls above bold text: Wiyi Yani U Thangani National Summit. Event details and dates are on a purple banner at the bottom.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Summit Communique

Over four days, 900 First Nations women from all reaches of the continent came together on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, with non-indigenous women collaborators. At the conclusion of the Summit, delegates issued a Communique outlining their perspectives, calls to action and recommendations for...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Native Title Report 2001

Appendix 2: Submission of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner to the Inquiry into Indigenous Land Use Agreements by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Native Title Report 2000: Contents

Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Nation in dialogue The dialogue with the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title Treating differences differently The PJC majority report Applying the test of 'legitimacy' to the NTA amendments The right to negotiat The dialogue with the CERD Committee, March...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Social Justice Report 2000: Index

Social Justice Report 2000 Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Reconciliation and human rights Chapter 3: International scrutiny of Australia's Indigenous affairs policies Chapter 4: Achieving meaningful reconciliation Chapter 5: Reparations Appendix 1: Information concerning Australia provided by...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Social Justice Report 1998

Social Justice Report 1998 Download Social Justice Report 1998 in PDF (420K), Word (475K) Contents Letter of submission Foreword Introduction: A Handful of Soil Chapter 1: The Aftermath for Indigenous Peoples Chapter 2: Non-Indigenous Community Responses Chapter 3: Church Responses Chapter 4...
Silhouette of an adult and a child facing each other at sunset, with the text Bringing them home at the bottom. The sky is filled with warm orange and purple tones.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Bringing Them Home: The 'Stolen Children' report (1997)

Background The 700-page report of the 'Stolen Children' National Inquiry, Bringing them Home, was tabled in Federal Parliament on 26 May 1997. Download the Bringing Them Home report (PDF, 18 MB) Read the Community Guide (2007 Update) Download the Community Guide (2007 Update) (PDF, 1.4 MB) Resources...
Black and white image of a person standing behind barred doors. The text reads: Indigenous Deaths in Custody 1989 to 1996, Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Indigenous Deaths in Custody:

A Report prepared by the Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
Cover of the Mornington Island Review Report from April 1995 by the Race Discrimination Commissioner and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, with an orange background.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Mornington Island Review Report

This review is a follow-up to Mornington: A Report by the Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner, released in April 1993. That Report was the result of a two-and-a-half year investigation into a range of issues affecting Aboriginal people living on Mornington Island in far north Queensland.
Cover page with Human Rights Australia logo at the top. Text reads: THE TOOMELAH REVIEW March 1989 on a plain white background.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Toomelah Review (1989)

On 15 June 1988 the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission released the Toomelah Report, containing the results of its inquiry into the social and material needs of Aborigines in the New South Wales/Queensland border towns of Toomelah and Boggabilla. The Commission undertook at the time to...
Cover of the Toomelah Report, issued by Human Rights Australia in June 1988, focusing on the problems and needs of Aboriginal people living on the NSWœQueensland border.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Toomelah Report (1988)

The Toomelah community of five hundred Aboriginal people endures appalling living conditions which amount to a denial to them of the most basic rights taken for granted by most other groups in society, and by other Australian communities of similar size. Their houses are substandard and overcrowded...