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26 March 2014Book page
Chapter 6: Principle 3: Increasing numbers requires increasing opportunities
Key findings of ADF Review The ADF Review found that the ADF’s talent pool was narrowing, while competition for workers had intensified. To enhance capability and operational effectiveness, the ADF Review found that the ADF must draw on a broader talent pool, of which women were a critical part. The ADF Review found that: There had only been a one percent increase in the recruitment of women… -
26 March 2014Book page
Chapter 7: Principle 4: Greater flexibility will strengthen the ADF
Key findings of Review The ADF Review found that flexibility is imperative for many Defence members, and that a lack of flexible work options – be that real or perceived – was acting as a serious impediment to retention. The ADF Review reported that in all three Services: There is an increased propensity for women to leave the ADF at points that coincide with a typical point where personnel … -
Children's Rights
19 February 2015SpeechEver seen or heard? The voice of children in family law
16th National Family Law Conference Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, it is a privilege to be here today at the 16th National Family Law Conference. Thank you Judge Bauman for the kind introduction. I would like to start by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land we meet on, and I pay my respects to their elders both past and present. I would like to thank Maureen Schull … -
Legal
28 January 2015SubmissionInquiry into the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2014
Australian Human Rights Commission Submission To The Parliamentary Joint Committee On Intelligence And Security Download PDF Download Word Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Summary 3 Recommendations 4 Human Rights Framework 4.1 Article 17 – the Right to Privacy 4.2 Article 19 – Freedom of Expression 5 Scope of dataset to be retained 6 Two year retention period 7 Access to retained… -
Children's Rights
15 December 2014Speech
Ever seen or heard? The voice of children in family law
16th National Family Law Conference Wednesday 8 October 2014 Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, it is a privilege to be here today at the 16th National Family Law Conference. Thank you Judge Bauman for the kind introduction. I would like to start by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land we meet on, and I pay my respects to their elders both past and present. I would like… -
Commission – General
14 December 2012SpeechPresident speech: ‘How could a Human Rights Act lead to better Government?’
I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Ngunnawal peoples, and pay my respect to their elders past and present. -
Rights and Freedoms
11 May 2016SpeechHuman rights across the Tasman: a widening gulf
I am honoured to have been invited to give this lecture at the Law School of the University of Canterbury, funded by the generosity of the Sir Eric Hotung Fellowship. While I had settled the subject matter of this lecture, I thought it would be helpful to know what other Hotung Fellows had discussed in previous years. I looked at last year’s lecture and was pleased to see that Professor… -
Race Discrimination
10 July 2014SpeechThe Asianisation of Australia?
Keynote speech to Asian Studies Association of Australia Annual Conference, “AsiaScapes: Contesting Borders” -
Legal
2 August 2017Submission
Australian Citizenship Legislation (Strengthening the Requirements for Australian Citizenship and Other Measures) Bill 2017
The Australian Human Rights Commission makes this submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee’s inquiry into the Australian Citizenship Legislation (Strengthening the Requirements for Australian Citizenship and Other Measures) Bill 2017 (Cth) introduced by the Australian Government. -
14 December 2012Book page
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: Social Justice Report 2000
The defining feature of the past year has been the focus on reconciliation ... But as we reach this crucial stage in relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, reconciliation has come to mean different things to different people. Reconciliation has been described as a 'peoples movement' ...having reached a level of community support that is now unstoppable. For the government it… -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Webpage
Senate File Listing 1 July 2006 - 31 December 2006
HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLIANCE - HRU PUBLIC INQUIRIES - HUMAN RIGHTS NATIONAL INQUIRY INTO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE IN SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS CONSULTATIONS - NT PUBLIC FORUMS -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Migration Amendment (Review Provisions) Bill 2006
In order to ensure that the views of the children in conflict with the law are duly taken into account, the following must be provided as a minimum in order to ensure their participation in accordance with articles 12 and 40 of the Convention; -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Tasmania: Charter of Rights
[1] For further discussion see John von Doussa QC, ‘In defence of human rights’, Address to the UNSW Law Society’s Speakers Forum, 24 August 2006; Commissioner Graeme Innes ‘The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the Protection of Human Rights at a federal level’, Address to the ANU Bill of Rights Conference. Both speeches are available at http://www… -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Expert seminar on Indigenous Peoples - Issue 3: Recognising Aboriginal customary law and developments in community justice mechanisms (2003)
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. It provides an overview of recent developments relating to: -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Submission to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works on the Proposed Redevelopment of the Villawood Immigration Detention Facility
to meet the individual needs of each detainee taking into account his or her history and experiences, age, gender and cultural, religious and linguistic identity. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012SpeechMaguire: Presentation to Ozewai Conference
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Although remembering some of my maths exam results, I'm not so sure that they have been as fascinated by me. If you ask a group of people to say the first number that comes into their heads, you'll get a lot of 7's. Perhaps it's because we all have an intuitive awareness that 7 is the smallest number of faces of a regular polygon that cannot be constructed… -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Commission Submission Amicus Curiae - Howe v Qantas
In light of the issues raised during the hearing of the proceedings and in the parties’ written submissions, the Sex Discrimination Commissioner (‘the Commissioner’) seeks the Court’s leave to make the following supplementary submissions. -
Race Discrimination
14 December 2012Webpage
Racial Discrimination Act complaints : Conciliated Outcomes examples
Under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 it is unlawful to do any act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on equal footing, of any human right or fundamental freedom in the political, economic, social, cultural or… -
Disability Rights
29 June 2015Publication
Guideline for compliance of bus stops with Accessible Public Transport
The Guideline has been prepared by the Commission to assist bus infrastructure providers to comply with the DSAPT. The Guideline does not replace the provisions of the DSAPT and does not seek to alter or expand upon the content of the DSAPT. -
Legal
14 December 2012Speech
Law Seminar 2008: Housing and Homelessness – What’s Human Rights got to do with It? by Cassandra Goldie
Paper presented at the Homelessness and Human Rights Seminar Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 12.30 – 2pm, Monday 7 April 2008 133 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, NSW