Publications

Education

2008 Face the Facts

The Australian Human Rights Commission is conducting a survey on the publication, Face the Facts: Some Questions and Answers about Indigenous Peoples, Migrants and Refugees and Asylum Seekers, and is interested in your feedback!

Race Discrimination

Face the Facts 2005

Face the Facts remains the Australian Human Rights Commission's most requested publication. It was first published in 1997 and updated in 2001 and again in 2003. The demand for clear factual information about immigrants, refugees and Indigenous peoples continues. Indeed there is a particular need...

Race Discrimination

Multiculturalism - A position paper by the Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner (2007)

This is my fourth year as the Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), a position I occupy in addition to that of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner. Over these past three or so years I have become...

Race Discrimination

Cyber-Racism: racial hatred on the internet (2002)

"On the other hand the Internet can be considered as a very important facility to combat racial and other forms of discrimination as well as a source of information and means to co-ordinate international action." [2]

Education

Face the Facts - rightsED

The Face the Facts education resource is designed to complement the material in the Commission’s Face the Facts publication. First published in 1997, Face the Facts reflects the continued demand for accurate and easy to understand information about Indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees and asylum...

Education

RightsED - Young people in the workplace

Young people in the workplace contains a series of activities and resources to help students explore the issues around workplace discrimination. The activities help students to draw comparisons between the dramatised workplace issues and their personal experiences by looking at how concepts of...

Education

Human rights education in the national school Curriculum: Position Paper of the Australian Human Rights Commission

The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) welcomes the development of a national school curriculum (the Curriculum). We believe that the development of the Curriculum is a unique opportunity to ensure all young Australians develop an understanding and appreciation for human rights.

Education

Voices of Australia - RightsED

This education resource is designed to complement the publication Voices of Australia: 30 years since the Racial Discrimination Act. The publication is available at: www.humanrights.gov.au/racial_discrimination/voices.

Rights and Freedoms

Asylum seekers and refugees

Australia has obligations to protect the human rights of all asylum seekers and refugees who arrive in Australia, regardless of how or where they arrive and whether they arrive with or without a visa.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Justice Reinvestment: accountability in action

Speech to the District and County Courts of Australia and New Zealand Conference - Justice Reinvestment: accountability in action - Mick Gooda Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Australian Human Rights Commission

Commission – General

Annual Report 1995 - 1996

Dear Attorney I have pleasure in presenting the Annual Report of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission for the period ended 30 June 1996, pursuant to section 45 of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Act 1986.

Education

RightsEd: Disability Rights: Inclusion and Sport

Almost 4 million Australians live with disabilities. If we add families, friends and colleagues, the number of people affected by disability is larger still.

Education

RightsEd: Tackling Disability Discrimination in Sport

Almost 4 million Australians live with disabilities. If we add families, friends and colleagues, the number of people affected by disability is larger still.

Race Discrimination

Mornington : a report by the Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner

INTRODUCTION : In November 1990 the Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner received a petition signed by 163 Aboriginal residents on Mornington Island requesting an investigation of an incident, which is described in section 2.1 below

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Joint Statement on the use of Hotels as Alternative Places of Detention

As the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) for places of detention under control of the Commonwealth, the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman inspects immigration detention facilities, including Alternative Places of Detention (APODs), to identify and consider systemic issues or systems where there...