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Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Proposed Wild Rivers Declarations
Proposed Wild Rivers Declarations Submission by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner to the Minister for Natural Resources and Water November 2008 Download in Word [333KB] Download in PDF [89KB] Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Summary 3 Recommendations 4 The Traditional Owners of the Archer, Lockhart and Stewart River Basins 4.1 Indigenous peoples’ human… -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 2001: Recommendations
In submitting this report I am required to make any recommendations as to actions that should be taken by governments to improve the recognition of the human rights of Indigenous people.[1] This year’s report contains 12 recommendations, which are reproduced here and discussed further in the relevant chapters. -
Rights and Freedoms3 May 2013Webpage
Right to an adequate standard of living, including food, water and housing
Back to rights and freedoms: right by right ICESCR Article 11 | International scrutiny | Commission work | More information | Comments ICESCR Article 11 ICESCR Article 11 states: The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous… -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 2003: Executive Summary
The Social Justice Report 2003 is the fifth report by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Dr William Jonas. It was tabled in federal Parliament, along with the Native Title Report 2003, in March 2004. -
Rights and Freedoms14 December 2012Book page
Appendix 5 The use of statistical evidence
This short paper is concerned, first, to examine the significance in a particular case of statistical evidence; secondly, to examine what it means to prove a fact on ‘the balance of probabilities’; and finally to examine the significance of relying on statistical evidence to establish an accused person’s age in the context of s 236B of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth). -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes
Work continues on the development of comprehensive recommendations for the implementation of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). Over the past three months we have been considering all the issues, some of them quite complex, relating to an orderly transition to WCAG 2.0, and receiving a range of views from government, industry, and the web development community (including web… -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Summary of Interventions by the Australian Human Rights Commission
Summary of Interventions by the Australian Human Rights Commission Updated 11 December 2009 Download PDF (100 kb) Word (181 kb) YEAR NO. OF CASES NAME OF CASE SUBJECT MATTER OF CASE COURT 1988 1. Re A Teenager (1988) 94 FLR 181 Family Law – Sterilisation of a young woman with a disability Family Court 2. Re Jane Family Law – Sterilisation of person with disability – whether parents require… -
14 December 2012Book page
3 The Commonwealth’s understanding of the usefulness of biomedical markers for age assessment purposes
This chapter considers the Commonwealth’s approach to the use of biomedical markers to assess age since wrist x-rays became a prescribed procedure for the purpose of age determination following the enactment of the Crimes Amendment (Age Determination) Bill 2001 (Cth). It also considers what each relevant Commonwealth agency knew, or should have known, about the value of specific age… -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Bill to remove Commissioner
Federal Government proposes to abolish position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner A Message from Dr William Jonas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner I write to alert you to a Federal Government proposal to abolish the post of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (together with the posts of Race
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