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14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
The disabled child [age removed], had cerebral palsy and from memory his family was [nationality removed]. I think his Curtin ID number was [removed] and his name [name removed]. His family arrived [date removed]. He had a couple of siblings, [age removed, name removed]. [Identifying details removed]. Last I heard was that the child was being cared for at Curtin (now closed) in the Health clinic by the nurses as the mother had refused to look after him anymore as she had exhausted all visa application processes and was still refused. -
Age Discrimination29 July 2013Publication
Your Rights at Retirement (2013)
Your Rights At Retirement: A guide to making decisions and navigating your entitlements in later life. This booklet helps you to navigate the different phases of ageing. It covers topics from setting up a retirement budget through to considering options for aged care. The booklet can be used as a reference guide when you need to check a topic, or it can be read from cover to cover to get a snapshot of the services and supports on offer. -
Sex Discrimination16 April 2013Project
Investing in care: Recognising and valuing those who care
Uncover the value of caregiving with the Australian Human Rights Commission’s project on recognizing and investing in those who care. -
Employers18 February 2015Quick Guide
Identified Positions
Identified positions are positions where an employer may identify that a position is to be filled only by a person with a particular attribute. This might mean an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicant, a person with a disability, a person of a particular sex or a person of a particular age. Identified positions help people who experience disadvantage to access equal opportunity in ... -
Employers19 February 2015Quick Guide
Special Measures
Special measures aim to foster greater equality by supporting groups of people who face, or have faced, entrenched discrimination so they can have similar access to opportunities as others in the community. Special measures are sometimes described as acts of ‘positive discrimination’ or ‘affirmative action’. They are allowed under federal anti-discrimination laws. The Sex Discrimination Act allows ... -
Legal12 June 2018Project
Uber Eats exemption
The Commission is interested in receiving submissions from interested people and parties about whether this temporary exemption should be granted. -
Commission – General31 May 2016Speech
Australian Corporate Lawyers Association Corporate
Check against delivery Keynote Address - Australian Corporate Lawyers Association Corporate Good morning and thank you for your warm introduction. I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we meet – the Gadigal people of the Eora nation and their elders past and present. Introduction I was pleased to receive your invitation to join you at today’s conference to speak ... -
27 February 2017Book page
Findings at a glance
Finding 1 A threshold issue Ensuring all customers are treated with basic levels of respect and fairness is not viewed as high a strategic priority as expected. Only1 in 2 customers surveyed agreed that ensuring all customers are treated respectfully is a priority for organisations. Less than half of those surveyed (41%) believe that organisations treat customers respectfully, regardless of their ... -
Commission – General7 September 2020E-bulletin (Monthly)
September ebulletin
However, given the extraordinary circumstances of 2020 we believe a new and different approach is needed to celebrate the many human rights heroes who have emerged this year. -
24 April 2015Book page
2 Background and framework for human rights promotion and protection
2.1 Implementation of UPR recommendations The Commission has lodged annual progress reports with the UN Human Rights Council on the implementation of recommendations from Australia’s first UPR. [2] These reports identify the status of all actions committed to, as reflected in Australia’s National Action Plan on Human Rights. A recurring theme over the past four years is the lack of implementation ... -
Sex Discrimination19 March 2013Publication
Investing in care: Recognising and valuing those who care
The Australian Human Rights Commission is focused on addressing sex discrimination and promoting gender equality in Australia – and ensuring the economic and financial security of all women. The Investing in care: Recognising and valuing those who care report examines the impact of unpaid caring responsibilities on workforce participation and retirement incomes and savings. -
14 December 2012Book page
Bringing them Home - Sarah story
When I accessed my file, I found out that the police and the station people at B... Station felt that my mother was looking after me. And they were unsure of why I was being taken away. They actually asked if I could stay there. But because I was light-skinned with a white father, their policy was that I had to be taken away. I was then the third child in a family of, as it turned out to be, 13. I was the only one taken away from the area [at the age of 4 in 1947]. -
Sex Discrimination7 February 2020Publication
Community Guide to the Sexual Harassment National Inquiry Report 2020
Read the message from Kate Jenkins urging all employers to join her in creating safe, gender-equal and inclusive workplaces, no matter their industry or size. -
Age Discrimination14 December 2017Project
Risk of Homelessness in Older Women
With many older women at risk of homelessness, the Age Discrimination Commissioner is working with sectors to develop innovative solutions to assist this rapidly growing group of women. -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 2003: Appendix one: A statistical overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia
This collection of statistics has been chosen for their relevance in highlighting the key characteristics of the Indigenous population. It focuses on key areas such as health, education, employment, housing, and contact with criminal justice and welfare systems. Where possible, the data is presented in a way that identifies absolute and relative change in the situation of Indigenous peoples over the past five and ten years, and provides some international comparisons. -
Sex Discrimination14 December 2012Speech
Work Life Balance: AIM Breakfast
I hope you’re all enjoying your hot breakfasts and are extremely grateful for them. For a couple of reasons: First- you didn’t have to cook them yourself, or, to be more precise, wash up all the dirty frying pans yourself. This is because you are working and you don’t have time to cook hot breakfasts for a particularly fussy group of consumers, your family. -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Commission submission - Child's Right to be Heard
1.1 It is submitted that the law in Australia is both uncertain and unsatisfactory as to the issue of whether a child's views should ordinarily be taken into account by a court when that court is considering whether to authorise medical treatment on the child. -
Legal14 November 2016Project
Current exemption applications
Exemption application under the Sex Discrimination Act The Australian Human Rights Commission has received an application from CJC Operations Australia Pty Ltd, trading as Curves. This application is made pursuant to s 44 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) (SDA) and is for an exemption from the operation of s 22 of the SDA. The applicant requests the exemption to allow it to exclude males ... -
14 December 2012Book page
Appendices - Annual Report 2009-2010: Australian Human Rights Commission
Select tender: A procurement procedure in which the procuring agency selects which potential suppliers are invited to submit tenders. This procurement process may only be used under certain defined circumstances. -
14 December 2012Book page
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
"Protection is not a simple concession made to the refugee: he is not an object of assistance, but rather a subject of rights and duties. Each country has the responsibility to respect the rights of refugees and assure that they are respected as much as the rights of its own citizens" [1]
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