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Rights and Freedoms
13 May 2022SpeechWhither human rights and freedoms protections in Australia?
As I reflect on the past two years, it is clear that the pandemic has brought a renewed national focus on the importance of centralising considering rights and freedoms during times of crisis — a greater ‘rights consciousness’. -
Rights and Freedoms
5 November 2020Speech
Do we have the necessary legal grammar to talk human rights?
We’re all talking human rights—but do we have the necessary legal grammar for them? Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM Acknowledgement Chief Justice, Justices, Masters and Registrars, good morning. Thank you to Justice Paul Tottle for the invitation to speak with you today. I’m sorry I can’t be with you in 3D, but WA once again has distanced itself from the rest of Australia in closing … -
Rights and Freedoms
29 October 2020Submission
Review of the mandatory data retention regime (2019)
The Commission’s recommendations are aimed at ensuring that the data retention regime is more closely tailored to the purpose of fighting serious crime and is subject to appropriate safeguards and oversight. -
Rights and Freedoms
18 March 2022Opinion piece
Time for review on COVID-19 border and quarantine restrictions
OPINION With the McGowan Government announcing earlier this week that the Western Australian hard border will ease on February 5, 2022, Australia is inching ever closer to border closures becoming a thing of the past. But while many of us would like this to be true, it is important to realise that we’re not there yet. While border restrictions are easing around Australia and State premiers… -
8 December 2020Book page
Part 1: Our women and girls' voices
Download the Report Download (PDF) Download (DOC) All of us, mainly all the women, we are the ones that are the backbone of everything … it doesn’t matter where. We are the backbone of our families, we are the backbone that everyone depends on to get things done. Cairns women Chapter 1 Background to report and methodology 1.1 Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) project background In June… -
Legal
30 May 2022Project
Human Rights Reports
Reports to the Minister under the AHRC Act In addition to receiving complaints of unlawful discrimination, the Commission can inquire into complaints of breaches of human rights and workplace discrimination under the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth) (AHRC Act). When the Commission receives a complaint of a breach of Human Rights or workplace discrimination, the Commission… -
Rights and Freedoms
18 November 2020Webpage
What human rights are at particular risk of being restricted during a pandemic?
Learn how human rights were restricted during the COVID-19 pandemic and how vulnerable people and groups were subjected to more human rights incursions. -
8 December 2020Book page
Part 3: Living and belonging
Download the Report Download (PDF) Download (DOC) Don’t you think that there is something drastically wrong when we’re in the year 2018 and the deterioration of our people has just tripled? We're missing something somewhere along the line … [we need to be] putting preventative measures in place and really educating our people with empowerment to be able to lend to their own understanding of …