Publications

LGBTIQ+

Resilient Individuals: Sexual Orientation Gender Identity & Intersex Rights 2015

Message from the Commissioner The role of the Human Rights Commissioner is to raise systemic public policy issues that impact on human rights, and seek reform. The Commission has in its legislation commissioners responsible for age, disability, race and sex discrimination. There are also...

Children's Rights

Children’s Commissioners and Guardians Communique 20–21 May 2015

The ACCG meets twice each year, and aims to promote and protect the safety, well-being and rights of children and young people in Australia, and ensure that the best interests of children and young people are considered in public policy and program development across Australia.

Rights and Freedoms

War and Peace: The ANZAC spirit and human rights

Message from Professor Gillian Triggs Professor Gillian Triggs President Australian Human Rights Commission Every year around Anzac Day, Australians and New Zealanders remember those who fought in all wars and conflicts over the last 100 years. As the national human rights institutions of Australia...

Age Discrimination

National prevalence survey of age discrimination in the workplace 2015

Foreword The longevity revolution is underway, inexorably. The number of Australians aged 65 and over is projected to more than double by 2055, when there will be around 40,000 people aged 100 and over. Life expectancy continues to increase. In 2055, men can expect to live on average to 95.1 and...

Disability Rights

Info and Communications Technology in the A.P.S – the need for change

The low rate of employment of people with disability in the Australian Public Service (APS) is unsatisfactory in terms of the government’s broader objectives, and from the Australian Human Rights Commission’s perspective in terms of the right to work of people with disability. The Australian Human...

Rights and Freedoms

Rights & Responsibilities Consultation Report

Rights & Responsibilities 2014 was a national consultation conducted by the Human Rights Commissioner between August and December 2014. The consultation examined how well people think their human rights and freedoms are protected in Australia.

Children's Rights

Supporting young children's rights

Statement of intent (2015–2018) between Early Childhood Australia (ECA), its members and the National Children’s Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention (2014)

Australia currently holds about 800 children in mandatory closed immigration detention for indefinite periods, with no pathway to protection or settlement. This includes 186 children detained on Nauru. Children and their families have been held on the mainland and on Christmas Island for, on average...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Close the Gap - Progress and priorities report 2015

In the spirit of an open and constructive dialogue between government, the wider community, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the Close the Gap Campaign annually produces this progress and priorities report alongside the Prime Minister’s report.

Legal

Rahimi (deceased) v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP)

View a report into the arbitrary detention case of Rahimi (deceased) v Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Immigration and Border Protection.

Commission – General

Our Agenda 2014-2015

A guide to the Commission and its activities for 2014-2015

Rights and Freedoms

Australia’s Universal Periodic Review 2014 Progress Report

This 2014 UPR Progress Report is the fourth in a series of annual reports developed in the lead up to Australia’s Second Cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council.

Rights and Freedoms

Free Speech 2014 Symposium Papers

This report is a collection of the presentations given by the various speakers at Free Speech 2014. These papers represent the views of the speakers, not the Commission. Whilst some minor edits have been made to the original transcripts, the Commission has maintained the integrity of the speeches as...