Freedom of Information disclosure log

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The Australian Human Rights Commission is required by section 11C of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 to publish a disclosure log on its website. The disclosure log lists information which has been released in response to an FOI access request. This requirement has applied since 1 May 2011.

The disclosure log requirement does not apply to:

personal information about any person if publication of that information would be 'unreasonable'
information about the business, commercial, financial or professional affairs of any person if publication of that information would be 'unreasonable'
other information covered by a determination made by the Australian Information Commissioner if publication of that information would be 'unreasonable'
any information if it is not reasonably practicable to publish the information because of the extent of modifications that would need to be made to delete the information listed in the above dot points.

The information described in the disclosure log table below has been released by the Commission under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 and is available for public access.

A link is provided if the information can be downloaded from this website or another website.
Information that is not available online may be obtained by emailing us at foi@humanrights.gov.au or writing to us at GPO Box 5218, Sydney, NSW 2001.

A charge may be imposed to reimburse the Commission for the cost incurred in copying or reproducing the information or sending it to you. There will be no charge for the time spent by the Commission in processing the FOI request that led to this information being made available. You will be notified if any charge is payable and required to pay the charge before the information is provided.

We maintain at least two financial years of disclosure log entries on our website.

FOI reference number	Date of access	FOI request	Information published in the disclosure log	Other information
FOI-2023/0522161713	21 July 2023	Request for correspondence between the Commission and the Attorney-General's Department regarding the implementation of the 2009 Commission report Sex files: the legal recognition of sex in documents and government records.	Released, in part, two documents totalling 122 pages.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2023/0324094835	18 May 2023	Request for all documents relating to the Commission's social media campaign on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.	Released, in part, a 107 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2023/0411101531	11 May 2023	Request for correspondence between Commission officials regarding the Commission media statement on the Bill to alter the Constitution and the related opinion piece by the Human Rights Commissioner.	Released, in part, a 58 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2023/0328161652	27 April 2023	Request for correspondence and meeting minutes between Lorraine Finlay, Rosalind Croucher and other senior members of the Commission regarding the development and release of the proposed model for a Human Rights Act, between 1 November 2022 and 10 March 2023.	Released, in full, an 11 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2023/0113094700	13 February 2023	Request for all documents between August 2011 and March 2013 relating to the exclusion of those aged 65 and over from eligibility to apply for disability care and support under the NDIS, and the consistency of this proposed exclusion with the CRPD and/or the ICCPR.	Released, in part, a 53 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2022/1107144144	8 December 2022	Request for the Commission's Senate Estimates briefing pack for the 2022 October and November Budget Estimates.	Released, in part, a 273 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2022/0606102754	28 July 2022	Request for access to any briefs or reports to the AGD or the the Department of Finance relating to the Auditor General's "Material Uncertainty relating to Going Concern" note in the AHRC's 2020-21 annual report, and the underlying organisational and financial situation relating to this note.	Released, in part, two documents totalling 261 pages.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2022/0317095254	16 May 2022	Request for access to documents concerning whether or not a policy, rule or condition that requires COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of entry, or as a prerequisite to attend or participate in any activity, violates any provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, or the Age Discrimination Act 2004.	Released, in full, a 173 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2022/0420141950	14 April 2022	Request for access to a document titled 'Responding to Challenging Client Interactions' dated December 2015 and the Commission's 'standard conciliation agreement'.	Released, in full, two documents totalling 16 pages.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2022/0218103143	18 March 2022	Request for access to documents relating to trauma informed conciliation processes.	Released, in full, four documents totalling 72 pages.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2021/1203094226	22 December 2021	Request for access to documents relating to the terms of engagement for Lorraine Finlay as Human Rights Commissioner.	Released, in full, a 1 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2017/0531171300	8 December 2021	Request for access to correspondence relating to drafts of the 2016 university sexual assault and sexual harassment project's national university student survey and reasons for changes made in the drafts.	Released, in full, a 75 page document	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2021/0702161516	20 July 2021	Request for access to the brief, correspondence or document that was provided to the invited stakeholders in relation to their submission and participation in the Transgender and Gender Diverse Inclusion Guidelines consultation process.	Released, in full, a 20 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2021/0430091400	12 July 2021	Request for access to all correspondence sent or received by Race Discrimination Commissioner Mr Chin Tan between 1 August 2020 and 29 April 2021 that mentions "institutional" or "institutionally" or "structural" or "structurally" or "systemic" or "systemically" with the words "racism" or "racist".	Released, in part, a 456 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2021/0429105716	28 June 2021	Request for access to internal and external correspondence or documents authored or received by the Commission regarding the "Racism It Stops With Me" Campaign tender between 1 August 2020 and 29 April 2021.	Released, in part, a 263 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2021/0426094014	18 May 2021	Request for access to documents, including submissions and communications, directed to and or related to Senate Committees on the Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2020 (2021 sittings); and documents related to the involvement of the Commission (if any) to any events associated with the public hearings on the Bill.	Released, in part, a 33 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2021/0226145433	27 April 2021	Request for access to information relating to partner visas, including: complaints made to the Commission; findings in human rights reports; formal representations; and research papers or submissions to parliamentary inquiries since 2015.	Released, in full, in a 7 page decision letter and a 6 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2021/0222110259	21 April 2021	Request for access to documents held by the Commission that relate to international travel restrictions and/or quarantine requirements imposed on Australian citizens as a result of COVID-19 from 1 January 2020 to 20 February 2021; and planned or potential international travel restrictions and/or quarantine requirements on Australian citizens who will not be vaccinated from COVID-19 from 21 February 2021 as a result of their non-vaccinated status.	Released, in part, a 69 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2021/0317163819	12 April 2021	Request for access to evidence of the Commission’s compliance with section 10 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014 (Cth) for the period 2016 – 2019, in the form of a table containing the date that the first fraud risk assessment was completed in each calendar year (recognising that the Commission may not conduct such assessments annually); and the date that any fraud control mechanism that is provided for in the Commission’s fraud control plan was implemented by the Commission in each calendar year.	Released, in full, a 1 page table.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2020/0115163202	10 March 2020	Request for access to representations made by the Commission to the Australian Government regarding conditions of detention in Alternative Places of Detention (APODs) between July 1 2019 and December 31 2019, and any responses to those representations, excluding documents that relate to individual detainees and certain Commission inspection visits to immigration detention centres and APODs	Released, in full, a 2 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2020/0107153214	5 February 2020	Request for access to all policies, procedures, manuals, guidelines or similarly described documents used by the staff of the Australian Human Rights Commission in dealing with complaints of unlawful discrimination lodged with the Australian Human Rights Commission.	Released, in part, a 53 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2020/0116155054	29 January 2020	Request for access to annual figures of the number of complaints under the Racial Discrimination Act and Age Discrimination Act that were classified as “lacking in substance” and cases that were successfully “conciliated” by the Commission from the past 10 years.	Released, in full, a 1 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2019/0723095449	24 September 2019	Request for access to correspondence relating to the Universities Australia’s next Respect.Now.Always national survey into sexual assault and harassment at Australian universities, and the Change the Course: National Report on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment at Australian Universities, with a focus on the publicity, promotion or communications plan of the report.	Released, in part, a 544 page document.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2019/0813143114	28 August 2019	Request for access to the NSW Police Codes of Conduct, the Victoria Police Codes of Conduct, the United Nations Standard Guidelines for the Humane Treatment for All Prisoners, and a copy of the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody and its recommendations	Released, in part, via links to relevant websites, in a 4 page decision letter.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
FOI-2019/0724112351	29 July 2019	Request for the economic analysis conducted by Deloitte Access Economics under CN3546583, as part of the Commission’s national inquiry into sexual harassment in Australian workplaces	Released, in full, a 78 page document within the Commission’s Respect@Work National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces Report.	To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au

Most FOI requests to the Commission are made by individuals in relation to their complaint file. These releases do not meet the criteria for public release in this disclosure log.

Information about making an freedom of information request, in relation to information held by the Commission, can be found at www.humanrights.gov.au/legal/foi/