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Employers18 February 2015Quick Guide
Identified Positions
Identified positions are positions where an employer may identify that a position is to be filled only by a person with a particular attribute. This might mean an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicant, a person with a disability, a person of a particular sex or a person of a particular age. Identified positions help people who experience disadvantage to access equal opportunity in … -
Employers18 February 2015Quick Guide
Contact Officer
Learn about the purpose, roles, and responsibilities of a contact officer in the workplace. -
Employers13 February 2015Quick Guide
Conciliation
If a complaint of discrimination or harassment is made to the Australian Human Rights Commission, the complaint may be resolved through a process known as ‘conciliation’. Conciliation is an informal, flexible approach to resolving complaints. The Commission tries to help everyone involved in the complaint to understand the issues and find a solution that is acceptable to everyone. We do not… -
Employers3 February 2015Quick Guide
Access to Premises
Everybody has a right to access and use public places, such as shops, restaurants, office blocks, educational institutions, sporting venues, libraries and cinemas. It is against the law for public places to be inaccessible to people with disabilities. This applies to existing places, as well as places under construction. The Disability Discrimination Act requires organisations to make… -
Legal
14 December 2012WebpageHervey Bay RSL: Application for temporary exemption: Submissions in response
Hervey Bay RSL: Application for temporary exemption: Submissions in response Robin and Sheila King -
Complaint Information Service14 December 2012Webpage
Understanding and preparing for conciliation
Understanding and preparing for conciliation Understanding and preparing for conciliation - Unlawful discrimination Understanding and preparing for conciliation - Human rights and ILO -
Complaint Information Service7 May 2019Webpage
Conciliation – how it works
Many complaints that the Australian Human Rights Commission receives are resolved through conciliation. Conciliation is an informal, flexible approach to resolving complaints – matters can be settled by an exchange of letters, a telephone negotiation between the Commission and the people involved, a telephone conciliation conference or a face to face conciliation conference. We will discuss… -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
8 April 2013Webpage
Immigration detention standards
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
24 November 2017WebpageFirst 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. -
Legal
28 October 2016Submission
Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016
Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016 Submission to Senate Standing Committees on Economics 5 September 2016 Note: The attached submission was previously provided to the Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee in May 2015 for their inquiry into social security amendments relating to psychiatric confinement which is now Schedule 20 of the Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016. -
Rights and Freedoms
12 August 2014Opinion pieceLessons from RDA debate should not be forgotten - Opinion piece
A uniting, not dividing, approach is needed to reform restrictions on free speech, writes Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson, in an opinion piece first published in The Australian on 9 August 2014. View the news story from the Commission's website. -
Rights and Freedoms
12 August 2014Opinion piece
Starting a national conversation about free speech - Opinion piece
In an opinion piece for the Sydney Morning Herald, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson says this week's Free Speech Symposium, together with the Prime Minister's decision not to proceed with changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, marks the beginning of a national conversation about free speech. View the news story from the Commission's website. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012WebpageHuman rights issues raised by the transfer of asylum seekers to third countries (2012)
Human rights issues raised by the transfer of asylum seekers to third countries’ sets out the Australian Human Rights Commission’s position in relation to steps taken recently by the Australian Government to transfer asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat to third countries for the processing of their claims for protection. -
Legal
11 February 2016Submission
Criminal Code Amendment (Firearms Trafficking) Bill 2015
Examine the submission on the Criminal Code Amendment (Firearms Trafficking) Bill 2015. -
Legal
11 February 2016Submission
Law Enforcement Legislation Amendment (Powers) Bill 2015
Understand the implications of the Law Enforcement Legislation Amendment (Powers) Bill 2015. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Speech
THE CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS: Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM (2003)
"....the fundamental conflict in the next millennium will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural"... -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
23 June 2014Opinion piece
Alcohol reform requires balanced approach - Opinion Piece
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, wrote in The Australian that the way to tackle alcohol abuse is to empower communities to make decisions about alcohol management that are reasonable, proportionate, and necessary. -
Legal
12 September 2016Submission
List of Issues: Submission to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2016)
View a submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2016) that outlines a list of issues in relation to human rights. -
Legal
21 December 2015Submission
Inquiry into the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment Bill (No.1) 2015
Read the submission on the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment Bill No.1 2015. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
13 March 2013Webpage
Inquiries
Stolen Children inquiry (1997) One of the inquiries the Commission is best known for is the 1997 inquiry into the removal of children from Indigenous families, also known as the Stolen Generation. Report of the Inquiry- Bringing them home. Indigenous Deaths in Custody (1996) The Commission prepared a report for the Indigenous Deaths in Custody Inquiry. Indigenous Deaths in Custody 1989-1996 …