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Children's Rights
23 January 2025Media ReleaseNational Children’s Commissioners concerned about NT government’s proposed changes to child protection laws
Acting National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People, Lil Gordon, and National Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollonds, have both expressed serious concern about proposed changes to child protection legislation in the Northern Territory. They believe the changes will undermine basic protections for First Nations children to be able to grow up with… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
10 December 2024Media ReleaseFirst Nations children deserve a rights-based future, today
Australia’s First Nations children deserve a brighter future where governments safeguard their wellbeing, rights and dignity, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss said today on International Human Rights Day. -
Children's Rights
18 March 2025Media Release
National Children’s Commissioner calls for urgent action to safeguard children in early learning and care
National Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollonds is urging a national response to revelations about dangerous practices and regulatory failings across Australia’s childcare sector. -
Children's Rights
11 December 2024Media Release
Australian Government urged to stand up for the human rights of children
As the Queensland Government moves to pass its controversial Making Queensland Safer Bill this week, the National Children’s Commissioner is calling on the Australian Government to affirm its commitment to the human rights of Australia’s children, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. -
Children's Rights
10 December 2024Opinion piece
After the social media ban, is the job done on child safety and wellbeing?
When the backslapping over the successful passing of the social media ban legislation has finished, there is a significant amount of work that still needs to be done to improve child safety and wellbeing in Australia. -
Education25 February 2015Webpage
Statistics about Children's Rights
Learn how Australia signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child to help protect vulnerable groups of children and young people who are at risk. -
Children's Rights
5 December 2016Project
Child-friendly versions of the Children's Rights Reports
What are the Children's Rights Reports? The National Children's Commissioner has to submit a report every year on the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by children and young people in Australia. This page contains an overview of all of the child friendly versions of the Children's Rights Reports, made for children and young people. Children's Rights Report 2019 The Children’s Rights… -
Race Discrimination
19 March 2025SpeechDr John Yu Fellowship
Race Commissioner Giridharan Sivaramans spoke at the John Yu Fellowship at the University of Sydney. -
Children's Rights
12 December 2024Video
National Children's Commissioner urges Australian governments to stand up for children's human rights
National Children's Commissioner Anne Hollonds has called on all Australians governments to protect the human rights of children. She released this video to coincide with UN Human Rights Day 2024, on the same week the Queensland Government planned to pass its controversial Making Queensland Safer Bill. Read the Commission's landmark report on child justice reform, titled 'Help Way Earlier!':… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
10 March 2016Opinion piece
Children's rights must come first, says Mick Gooda
The recent death of a 10-year-old in the Kimberley is a tragedy and I pass on my condolences to her family at this particularly distressing time. This tragedy has heightened my conviction that the lives of all of our children in Australia are precious and should be protected at all costs. Nearly 20 years after the Bringing Them Home Report documented the experiences of the Stolen Generations…