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14 December 2012Book page
It's About Time - Chapter 7
7.1 Introduction 7.2 What children want and need 7.3 Early childhood education and care services and children's wellbeing 7.4 Government provision of early childhood education and care services 7.5 How do we make child care services more family-friendly? 7.6 Making early childhood education and care services more accessible for parents and children with disability 7.7 Integration of child care… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Publication
Submission: Human rights and fundamental freedoms of Indigenous people
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people – Australian mission Indigenous People's Organisations Network of Australia 17 - 28 August 2009 Download Complete report PDF [667 KB] Complete report Word [502KB] Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples’ - Australian Mission The Australian Human Rights and Commission has made… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice15 July 2014Book page
Chapter 3: How do we keep moving forward? A road map for our future
3.1 Introduction In chapters 1 and 2, I look back over the past 20 years that the Social Justice Commissioner position has been in place and think about the journey and our learning over this time. In this chapter, I want to explore how those lessons can take us forward to chart a confident course into the future and how the realisation of our rights can produce long term sustainable… -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 2007 - Chapter 3: The Northern Territory 'Emergency Response' intervention
Back to Contents Social Justice Report 2007 Chapter 3: The Northern Territory ‘Emergency Response’ intervention – A human rights analysis Part 1: Background - The Little Children are Sacred Report and the announcement of the 'emergency measures' Part 2: The Northern Territory 'emergency response' legislation Part 3: The measures enacted in the NT emergency response and human rights standards… -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Migration Amendment (Immigration Detention Reform) Bill 2009
Migration Amendment (Immigration Detention Reform) Bill 2009 Australian Human Rights Commission Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs 31 July 2009 Download in Word [375KB] Download in PDF [103KB] Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Background 3 Summary 4 Recommendations 5 The Bill should ensure that immigration detention centres are used only as a… -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Re: Bernadette (2008)
Re: Bernadette (2008) SUBMISSIONS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION Family Court of Australia Parramatta Registry No PAF 1057/2005 BETWEEN THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER Applicants AND DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES Intervener HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION Intervener LEGAL AID NSW Independent Children’s Lawyer SUBMISSIONS OF THE HUMAN… -
Commission - General14 December 2012Webpage
History of the Commission
The Australian Human Rights Commission (formerly known as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission) was established on 10 December 1986 (International Human Rights Day) as Australia’s national human rights watchdog. -
Rights and Freedoms3 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… -
Age Discrimination20 May 2016Publication
Euthanasia, human rights and the law
This issues paper explores voluntary euthanasia by looking at the domestic regulatory environment in comparison to relevant international laws. It concludes with a human rights-based analysis of voluntary euthanasia and some commentary on the practice informed by human rights principles.