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14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2008 - Case Study 1
Imagine the sea rising around you as your country literally disappears beneath your feet, where the food you grow and the water you drink is being destroyed by salt, and your last chance is to seek refuge in other lands...[1] -
Commission – General
9 April 2013PublicationOur agenda: Commission workplan 2012-2013
This document provides an overview of the Commission’s major activities for 2012-13. The Commission regularly reviews the ways in which human rights are being observed and respected across Australia. We do this to determine where we can take practical action and make a positive difference. -
Race Discrimination
23 July 2015Opinion pieceForty years of the Racial Discrimination Act
In October 1975, at a ceremony for the proclamation of the Racial Discrimination Act, then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam described the legislation as ‘a historic measure’, which aimed to ‘entrench new attitudes of tolerance and understanding in the hearts and minds of the people’.(1) The Act was Australia’s first federal human rights and discrimination law. Enacted shortly after the formal -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012SpeechHuman rights in regional, rural and remote Australia: Chris Sidoti (1998)
When the CWA started in 1923 about 40% of Australians lived in rural communities. Rural Australia was made up of small but functioning communities whose members had to work hard but could make a living from the land. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Speech
"Long-term detention and mental health": Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM (2002)
Professors Harry Minas and Byron Good - Conference Convenors and Co-directors, distinguished guests from both Australia and overseas, ladies and gentlemen, all. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012WebpageSubmission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child for their Day of General Discussion on the Rights of Indigenous Children
This submission is made by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner on behalf of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) of Australia. In recent years the Commissioner has undertaken many activities relating to the rights of Indigenous children. This submission provides an overview of the inequality and discrimination faced by Aboriginal and Torres… -
Legal
14 December 2012WebpageInformation concerning Australia and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Recommendation 1: The Commission recommends that the Australian Government fully incorporate into Australian law its human rights obligations to children, including through the adoption of a federal Human Rights Act. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
The Council of Social Service of NSW (NCOSS) is an independent non-government organisation and is the peak body for the social and community services sector in NSW. NCOSS works with its members on behalf of disadvantaged people and communities towards achieving social justice in New South Wales. It was established in 1935 and is part of a national network of Councils of Social Service which… -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2002: Introduction
The year under review in this, my fourth Native Title Report, is a year in which the High Court has handed down its decision in several significant native title cases thus elucidating the principles upon which the recognition and extinguishment of native title are determined. 2002 marks the end of a ten year period since the Mabo decision [1] first introduced the dual concepts of recognising and… -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Speech
President Speech: In the national interest: the promotion and protection of human rights
Thank you for the opportunity to speak here today. I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Ngunnawal peoples, and pay my respects to their elders past and present. -
14 December 2012Book page
RESPONSE TO THE DISCUSSION PAPER: LIVING WILLS: OPAWA
The Public Advocate of Western Australia supports the concept of people with mental illnesses having significant and formalised input into the treatment of their illness. A pre-planning instrument such as a living will is a useful tool for people with fluctuating illnesses to contribute to their management while they are unwell. -
14 December 2012Book page
Annual Report 2002-2003: Chapter 6
In the contemporary world, especially amongst first world economies, the culture of civil liberties, freedoms and non-discrimination are reasonably well established and these precepts have clear links to innovation, creativity and the broader concepts of economic productivity and a well-functioning civil society. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Speech
Rural health: A human right for rural people: Chris Sidoti (1999)
Over the past year I have travelled to about 30 communities in all States and Territories from large regional cities like Cairns and Bunbury to small towns like Bourke and Peterborough, to remote communities like Papunya and Yuendumu. Wherever I have gone I've heard of the hard work and commitment of rural nurses in their local communities. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012SpeechThe Disability Discrimination Act Seven Years On
I wrote the title for this presentation almost a year ago when I was first asked to give it. I came back to it two weeks ago to write the actual paper and thought "what does this mean?" -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
Equal employment opportunity for people with disabilities: how to move from the theoretical to the actual
I congratulate EOPHEA for organising this discussion. Although, of course, your focus is primarily on employment in the university environment, the conference program is clearly designed to address equal opportunity issues of much more general significance. I have approached my own paper in the same spirit: I hope it will be particularly relevant in your own context as equity practitioners in… -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2010
The Australian Human Rights Commission makes this submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Affairs Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2010. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Submission: Covert Search Warrants (2009)
The Hon John Hatzistergos MP Attorney-General Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 And by email: office@hatzistergos.minister.nsw.gov.au -
14 December 2012Book page
Chapter 1 - Introduction: Social Justice Report 2009
This is my sixth, and final, Social Justice Report as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner. It covers the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009. -
3 January 2014Book page
2 Background and framework for promotion and protection of human rights
2.1 Scope of international obligations During Australia’s review, the Government made a commitment to improving Australia’s monitoring of its international human rights obligations. Australia is a party to seven of the core human rights treaties and maintains a number of reservations under these. The Australian Government made a commitment to conduct a comprehensive review of such… -
14 December 2012Book page
Isma-Listen: Eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australians
The meeting was chaired by the Deputy South Australian Equal Opportunity Commissioner, Ms Anne Burgess and facilitated by Omeima Sukkarieh, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (notes). It was attended by 21 invited participants.