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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.

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FOI reference number

Date of access

FOI request

Information published in the disclosure log

Other information

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
FOI-2019/0207103730  13 May 2019  Request for certain emails contained in Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson’s  email account that contain “liberal.org.au” or “ipa.org.au” in the body and the addressee fields of the email  Released, in part, a 266 page document.   To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
F2019/12 2 May 2019 Request for all documents dealing with the Commission’s publication Leading for Change: A Blueprint for cultural diversity, the Launch of Leading for Change and the Commission’s Ten Year Plan YouTube video Released, in part, a 1,470 page document. To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
F2018/28 21 December 2018 Request for all documents relating to the Media Release titled 'Violent Protest in Sydney' dated 18 September 2012 Released, in part, an 11 page document. To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
F2018/24 23 November 2018 Request for a document relating to the number of complaints received in the last 5 financial years dealing with people with a disability experiencing difficulty accessing online services, including the types of respondents in these complaints and outcome of these complaints. Released, in full, a 1 page document. To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
F2018/20 15 October 2018 Request for a document relating to complaints received each calendar year from 1 January 2012 to 16 September 2018 detailing the number of criminal record discrimination complaints received nationally, how these complaints were finalised and the outcomes where these complaints were conciliated. Released, in full, a 3 page document. To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
F2018/18 24 September 2018 Request for a document relating to complaints received each calendar year from 1 January 2012 to 9 August 2018 detailing the reasons for complaints of criminal record discrimination not being conciliated, both in Victoria and nationally. Released, in full, a 2 page document. To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
F2018/17 20 August 2018 Request for a document relating to complaints received each calendar year from 1 January 2012 to 9 August 2018 detailing:
• The number of complaints received by the Commission in relation to criminal record discrimination from each state and territory
• The number of complaints of criminal record discrimination that were successfully conciliated and the basis on which they were conciliated
• The number of complaints of criminal record discrimination that were finalised without being conciliated.		 Released, in full, a 3 page document. To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
F2018/15 9 July 2018 Request for a document detailing the number of complaints received by the Commission relating to discrimination on the basis of immigrant status under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) and the number of these complaints successfully conciliated over the past 10 years. Released, in full, a 1 page document. To access the documents please email foi@humanrights.gov.au
F2018/13 6 July 2018 Request for copies of all expenses claimed by the former President of the Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Tim Soutphommasane between 1 January 2017-29 July 2017 and 1 December 2017- and 31 May 2018, respectively. Released, in part, 2 documents comprising  134 pages.

Released, in part, 2 documents comprising 120 pages.

 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/