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Childrens Rights

'Help Way Earlier!'- transforming child justice for safety & wellbeing

Report artwork copyright Bernard Singleton and Saltwater People 2024. 'Help way earlier!’ How Australia can transform child justice to improve safety and wellbeing investigates opportunities for reform of child justice and related systems across Australia based on children’s rights and sound...

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Native Title Report 2012

Community Guide: Social Justice and Native Title Reports Also see Social Justice Report 2012 Transmittal Letter 26 October 2012 The Hon Nicola Roxon MP Attorney-General Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 Dear Attorney I am pleased to present to you the Native Title Report 2012 (the Report), which I...
Cover of the Australian Human Rights Commission annual report 2011-2012, featuring a close-up of hands reading Braille text. The background is mostly gray, with red accents and the commission's logo at the top left.
Commission - General

Annual Report 2011–2012: Australian Human Rights Commission

I have pleasure in presenting the Annual Report of the Australian Human Rights Commission for the period ending 30 June 2012. The report has been prepared pursuant to section 45 of the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 and in accordance with the requirements of section 70 of the Public...
Asylum Seekers and Refugees

DIAC Response to the Australian Human Rights Commission report on the use of community arrangements for asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons who have arrived to Australia by boat

The Department of Immigration and Citizenship welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) report on the use of community arrangements for asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons who have arrived to Australia by boat.
A hand places a paper boat on water. The cover text reads, An age of uncertainty: Inquiry into the treatment of individuals suspected of people smuggling offences who say that they are children - 2012.
Asylum Seekers and Refugees

An age of uncertainty - Inquiry into the treatment of individuals suspected of people smuggling offences who say that they are children

This report makes disturbing reading. It documents numerous breaches by Australia of both the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. As a nation that is understandably anxious that the rights of our own children should be respected when...

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