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Childrens Rights
6 May 2025SubmissionMaking Queensland Safer (Adult Crime, Adult Time) Amendment Bill 2025
Explore the latest on the Making Queensland Safer Bill 2025, including expanded 'Adult Crime, Adult Time' offences and recent public hearings. -
Disability Rights
5 December 2024Opinion pieceIt’s time disability reform became an election commitment
In an opinion piece published in The Mandarin, Disability Discrimination Commissioner Rosemary Kayess urges political leaders to commit to disability reform ahead of the 2025 Federal election. -
Rights and Freedoms
2 May 2024VideoRights On Time Video
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Commission - General
3 July 2024Opinion pieceLet’s resist the worst of times with the best of humanity
When I began my term as President of the Australian Human Rights Commission seven years ago, the marriage equality plebiscite was engulfing our nation, in much the same way as the recent Voice referendum did. -
Rights and Freedoms
7 June 2024Webpage
Human Rights in the time of Covid
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Rights and Freedoms
3 March 2023Speech
Human Rights in the time of Covid
Human Rights in the time of Covid: Ensuring accountability in the contemporary public health context 26TH World Congress of Medical Law Gold Coast, 5 December 2022 Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM FRSA FACLM(Hon) FAAL TEP Abstract: Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic as a public health emergency tested national readiness in a federal system to contain the spread of the disease… -
8 July 2025Conciliation register
2025-01-04
The complainant uses a wheelchair and alleged he was unable to book a flight with the respondent airline at his preferred time because assistance for passengers who use a wheelchair was unavailable. The airline claimed that assistance for passengers who use a wheelchair was available for the flight the complainant wanted to book. The complaint was resolved with an agreement that the airline… -
Business and Human Rights
30 November 2022SpeechExecutive discretion in a time of COVID-19
Promoting, protecting and fulfilling human rights in the contemporary public health context 11th Austin Asche Oration in Law and Governance Australian Academy of Law and Charles Darwin University Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM FRSA FACLM(Hon) FAAL TEP * Abstract Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have required very quick action by governments. But those responses have also involved … -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
17 January 2019Media ReleaseTime to act on constitutional recognition
The current and former Social Justice Commissioners have called for political leadership to ensure the recommendations of the Joint Select Committee on constitutional recognition are realised. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO and former commissioners Mick Gooda, Professor Tom Calma AO, Dr William Jonas AM and Emeritus Professor Mick Dodson… -
Rights and Freedoms
7 June 2024Webpage
Time for review on COVID-19 border and quarantine restrictions
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Childrens Rights
12 May 2023News story
Webinar recording: Now is the time to reimagine schools
Global thought leaders invite the Australian community to reinvent schools as places that equally support children's learning and wellbeing