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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
29 October 2013SpeechPolicing Partnerships: How Justice Reinvestment works with Aboriginal communities
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14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
The Commonwealth has some statutory obligations to set standards: eg, under the Quarantine Act 1908 (see below), and the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (to provide a national framework for the regulation of therapeutic goods in Australia and ensure their quality, safety and efficacy). -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012SpeechAsia Pacific Forum meeting: Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM (2001)
Although the first Human Rights Commission was established by federal legislation in 1981, ICESCR was not added to its mandate (unlike the ICCPR). The omission was repeated when the new (current) Commission was established in 1986. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012SpeechPresident speech: Human Rights, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
I would like to begin this morning by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. I pay my respects to their elders past and present. -
Commission – General
6 February 2020Webpage
2018-2019 Senate Order for Entity Contracts Listing Relating to the Period 01 Jan 2019 to 31 December 2019
Pursuant to the Senate Order for entity contracts the following table sets out contracts entered into by the Australian Human Rights Commission which provide for a consideration to the value of $100,000 or more (GST inclusive) and which: a. have not been fully performed as at 31 December 2019, or b. which have been entered into during the 12 months prior to 31 December 2019 Most of the… -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012SpeechThe Draft United Nations Convention on Human Rights and Disability
I do this in all my public speaking not only because it is proper to do so but because this acknowledgment reminds us that human experience has many levels of diversity, and this of course includes disability. -
Legal
14 December 2012WebpageDecision on exemption application: cinema captioning
By this instrument, the Australian Human Rights Commission (‘the Commission’) rejects the application of Village Roadshow Limited, Amalgamated Holdings Ltd trading as Greater Union Cinemas, Event Cinemas and Birch Carroll & Coyle, Reading Cinemas Pty Limited and The Hoyts Corporation Pty Limited (the Applicants) for a temporary exemption pursuant to s 55(1) of the Disability Discrimination… -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Webpage
Senate File Listing 1 July 2011 – 31 December 2011
FileId: 2007/63-2 Create Date 22-Jul-2011 Name: AGE DISCRIMINATION PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN 2007 Title: PUBLIC AWARENESS AND EDUCATION - SAGE CONTRACTING OUT FileId: 2009/21-3 Create Date 07-Oct-2011 Name: 2008 SPEECHES AND LECTURES Title: PUBLIC AWARENESS AND EDUCATION - ATSISJU ADDRESSES (PRESENTATIONS) FileId: 2009/307-2 Create Date 07-Oct-2011 Name: INCOMING AND OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE… -
14 December 2012Book page
National Inquiry on Employment and Disability Interim Report: chapter 6
Discussion about people with disability in the open workplace tends to focus on whether a person can find a job, rather than keep a job. While successfully obtaining a job is clearly the first step for a person seeking employment in the open workplace, it is only the first step. -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 2006
This appendix summarises the main findings from research and consultations conducted by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission between 2001 and 2006 that relate to family violence and abuse in Indigenous communities. The summary has also been published in a more detailed research paper prepared by the Social Justice Commissioner in 2006 entitled Ending family violence and abuse in… -
Education14 December 2012Publication
Human rights education in the national school Curriculum
The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) welcomes the development of a national school curriculum (the Curriculum). We believe that the development of the Curriculum is a unique opportunity to ensure all young Australians develop an understanding and appreciation for human rights. -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2007: Chapter 2
Whether Indigenous peoples are able to gain full recognition and protection of their native title rights and interests, depends significantly on the process by which native title applications are resolved. -
Sex Discrimination
20 May 2016WebpageList of Support Services
If you feel unsafe now, phone 000 . You can contact police regarding any sexual harassment, sexual assault or bullying that involves criminal conduct. If you are participating in the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces and at any stage become distressed or require additional support from someone not involved in the Review, please call the Commonwealth Parliamentary … -
14 December 2012Book page
A Last Resort? - Summary Guide (2004)
It was established to consider whether Australia's immigration detention laws and its treatment of children in immigration detention comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. -
14 December 2012Book page
Chapter 4: Beyond the Apology - an agenda for healing: Social Justice Report 2008
On 13 February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on behalf of the Australian Parliament, made a historic and long overdue national Apology to the Stolen Generations. With eloquence and emotion, Prime Minister Rudd said what so many Australians have wanted to say, and what so many Indigenous peoples have needed to hear: -
Commission – General
10 December 2015Speech
The future of human rights in Australia
AHRC Awards 2015 Thank you Craig for your generosity, for the 4th time, in guiding us through the awards. Well done for your very funny and successful Media Circus. Your honours, distinguished guests, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen. I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation and respect their elders. Today, it really is about you! We are here to… -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
Hastings: Finding Your Own Shape
I am delighted to have been invited to speak to you tonight on the Eve of International Women's Day, as so many of you are at the eve of being women yourselves, whether international or not. I can tell you, from my own experience, that being a woman kind of creeps up on you: one minute you're a girl, or an adolescent (whatever that may really be), and the next you are a woman! -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2008 - Appendix 8
The DKCRC is dedicated to improving conditions for all desert Australians and it recognises that there have been past instances of Aboriginal people’s knowledge and intellectual property being misappropriated and exploited. The DKCRC Board also recognises that the DKCRC’s objectives will only be achieved by working in equitable partnership with Aboriginal people. Such partnerships… -
14 December 2012Book page
Indigenous Deaths in Custody: Report Summary
1.1 This Report uses findings of coronial inquests as a means of auditing the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. -
Disability Rights
19 March 2024Webpage
IncludeAbility - Equality at work
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