Publications

Race Discrimination

Freedom from Discrimination: Report on the 40th anniversary of the Racial Discrimination Act

This report documents the activities conducted to mark the 40th anniversary of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth). It is primarily based on a series of public consultations led by the Race Discrimination Commissioner, though it also draws upon some of the research presented at a conference...

Age Discrimination

Older Australians at Work Summit

A key task of the Older Australians at Work Summit was to investigate what is stopping older people from continuing to contribute within the workplace, and how to get rid of those barriers. The summit provided an opportunity for academics, HR experts, business executives and consultants to come...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Targeted recruitment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

This guideline will help employers to use the ‘special measure’ provisions in the federal Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) and state and territory discrimination laws, to target Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for recruitment.

Disability Rights

Willing to Work - Booklet 2: employment and older Australians

Explore what older Australians and those with a disability can do when they encounter employment discrimination.

Disability Rights

Willing to Work - employment and Australians with disability

Read the report on employment and Australians with disabilities.

Disability Rights

Willing to Work - Booklet 4: what you can do about employment discrimination

Disability Rights

Willing to Work - Booklet 1: about the National Inquiry

Explore a series of booklets that are part of a National Inquiry in to employment discrimination against older Australians and Australians with disability.

Commission - General

Corporate Plan 2015-2016

This Corporate Plan sets out the strategic direction and priorities of the Commission four the next four years. It creates an explicit connection between the public reporting of our corporate goals, our operational environment, key activities for the coming year and annual performance reporting.

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Use of force in immigration detention facilities

Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015 The Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015 (the Bill) would give increased power to ‘authorised officers’ to use force against people (including...

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Summary factsheet - The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014

The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014 Summary factsheet July 2015 What was the Inquiry about? On 3 February 2014 the President of the Commission announced a national inquiry into children in immigration detention. The purpose of the Inquiry was to...

Race Discrimination

National Anti-racism Strategy Evaluation 2015

The National Anti-Racism Strategy was developed to help people to understand what racism is and why it is a problem. And it was about empowering people to prevent racism from happening and to reduce it in their communities. Almost three years on from its launch in August 2012, we can report on the...

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Children in immigration detention: statements by health professional organisations

Joint statement by 15 peak health professional bodies: ‘[we] call on the Government to immediately release all children and their families from immigration detention in Australia and Nauru...our organisations represent a wide range of health professionals who have seen, first-hand, the devastating...

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Children in immigration detention: statements by the United Nations

2015 United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: ‘...by failing to provide adequate detention conditions; end the practice of detention of children; and put a stop to the escalating violence and tension at the Regional Processing Centre...

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Tell Me About: Children in immigration detention in Nauru

Transfer of asylum seeker children to Nauru On 13 August 2012 the Australian Government reintroduced a system of third country processing for asylum seekers who arrive by boat without a valid visa. Under this system these asylum seekers, including children, must be transferred to a third country as...