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Business and Human Rights7 July 2025E-bulletin (Monthly)
President's message | July 2025
Dear friends, Without truth there can be no justice. On Tuesday, the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s remarkable four-year journey ended with the publication of its final reports and public record. Yoorrook was the first formal truth-telling inquiry into injustices against First Peoples in Victoria. Led by four First Peoples Commissioners and a non-Indigenous Commissioner, it changed Victoria… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice13 March 2013Webpage
First Nations Resources
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice links Government Services for Aboriginal and Islander Peoples Research and key resources Australian Bureau of Statistics: Indigenous specific data Indigenous Law Resources (Austlii: Australian Legal Information Institute site) Australian Indigenous Peoples and the Law (Parliamentary Library of Australia) Centre for Aboriginal Economic… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice24 November 2017Webpage
First Nations Support services
View a list of services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls in need of help with health matters, legal advice or to make a complaint. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice4 August 2024News story
Commissioners welcome NT Police apology to First Nations Peoples
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Katie Kiss, and the Race Discrimination Commissioner, Giridharan Sivaraman, have welcomed an apology by Northern Territory Police for historic injustices inflicted on First Nations communities. -
Race Discrimination5 November 2024Video
Dismantling systemic racism - perspectives from First Nations peoples - Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture 2024
More than 1500 people tuned into the 2024 lecture to learn about ‘Dismantling systemic racism – perspectives from First Nations peoples’. Systemic racism, in law, policies and service delivery, has serious and ongoing consequences for First Nations peoples, including poor mental and physical health, economic disadvantage, over-incarceration and social exclusion. CEO of First Nations… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice10 March 2016Opinion piece
Children's rights must come first, says Mick Gooda
The recent death of a 10-year-old in the Kimberley is a tragedy and I pass on my condolences to her family at this particularly distressing time. This tragedy has heightened my conviction that the lives of all of our children in Australia are precious and should be protected at all costs. Nearly 20 years after the Bringing Them Home Report documented the experiences of the Stolen Generations… -
24 April 2015Book page
Annex 2: Implementation status of first cycle UPR recommendations
No Country Recommendation Response Implementation 1 Republic of Moldova Ratify the OPCAT Accepted Not implemented 2 Azerbaijan Speed up process of ratification of OPCAT Accepted Not implemented 3 Maldives Ratify OPCAT and designate a National Preventive Mechanism Accepted Not implemented 4 New Zealand High priority ratification of the OPCAT and establish a National Preventative Mechanism… -
Commission - General11 June 2025E-bulletin (Monthly)
President's message | June 2025
We must end the practice of police investigating police deaths in custody Two recent Aboriginal deaths in custody in the Northern Territory have again raised questions about the treatment of First Nations people in Australia’s criminal justice systems. Kumanjayi White, a 24 year-old Warlpiri man with disability, died in Alice Springs on 27 May after being restrained by police on the floor of… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice8 March 2021Media Release
Celebrating First Nations women on IWD
On International Women’s Day (IWD) the Commission pays tribute to the tireless and important work of First Nations women across Australia. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO has called for recognition and celebration of the power and potential of deadly First Nations women all over the country who are leading, nurturing and growing the oldest… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice24 May 2023News story
Uluru Statement calls for First Nations’ voice in the constitution
To resounding applause, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates from across the country have agreed to a landmark Uluru Statement calling for the establishment of a First Nations’ voice enshrined in the constitution. "We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart. "Our Aboriginal and Torres… -
14 December 2012Book page
Comments on submissions in response to first draft employment standards
These comments were prepared in 1996 by HREOC staff acting as secretariat to the subcommittee of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation considering development of disability standards on employment under the DDA. This document summarises submissions received on the first draft of standards and provides commentary on those submissions.
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