Submission: Inquiry into Australia's Human Rights Framework – supplementary to submission 1

The purpose of this submission is to provide further information to complement the Commission’s first submission. In proposing key elements required to ensure that a future National Human Rights Framework is robust and achieves outcomes that improve the protection of human rights in Australia, this second submission:

• focuses on how promoting and protecting human rights in the light of a federal Human Rights Act will help build a culture of rights-mindedness
• illustrates how the Commission’s proposed model for a Human Rights Act would work in practice
• identifies the ways in which a proposed federal Human Rights Act would address existing gaps in Australia’s current framework for the protection of human rights
• offers case-studies across a range of areas such as freedom of speech, aged care and social security to support the case for a Human Rights Act and consider improvements that can be made with the introduction of a Human Rights Act
• highlights key opportunities for reform within discrimination law for the protection of human rights in Australia.