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Asylum Seekers and Refugees
23 January 2013PublicationImmigration detention on Christmas Island - Observations from visit to Immigration detention facilities on Christmas Island
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
10 April 2013PublicationDraft guidelines: Ensuring income management measures compliancy
The Commission has issued these draft guidelines to provide practical assistance to Parliament and the Government in designing and implementing income management measures that protect human rights and are consistent with the RDA. They are also intended to increase awareness among affected communities about the application of the RDA to income management regimes. -
14 December 2012Book page
A Time to Value - Part D
Part D of the paper focuses on how a paid maternity leave scheme would actually operate were it to be introduced in Australia. The emphasis, as in the rest of the paper, is on the feedback that HREOC has received through submissions and consultations. Each Chapter canvases the views that were expressed in relation to each component of a national paid maternity leave scheme. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
1 March 2016Publication
Toomelah Report (1988)
The Toomelah community of five hundred Aboriginal people endures appalling living conditions which amount to a denial to them of the most basic rights taken for granted by most other groups in society, and by other Australian communities of similar size. Their houses are substandard and overcrowded, actually contributing to a range of diseases. The community has for decades lived without an adequate and certain water supply, a properly functioning sewerage system and a safe means of sewage disposal. -
Race Discrimination
8 November 2016Project
Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture Series
The Australian Human Rights Commission has established the Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture to honour the memory of the Hon. Kep Enderby QC (1926-2015), who as Attorney-General introduced the Racial Discrimination Bill in the House of Representatives on 13 February 1975.