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Sex Discrimination
17 October 2022Media ReleaseNational plan to end gender-based violence must be fully resourced to achieve results
Explore a plan to end gender-based violence and how for this to succeed, all governments need to make investments in prevention and recovery strategies. -
Technology and Human Rights
19 July 2023SubmissionUtilising ethical AI in the education system
Learn more about how ethical AI can be used in schools and education to promote learning and human rights. -
14 January 2021Conciliation register
2019-05-10
<p>The complainant’s son has cerebral palsy, epilepsy, chronic lung disease and an intellectual disability and attended a public school for children with chronic and complex disability needs. The complainant alleged his son was spending too long travelling between school and home on the respondent department’s free transport service for children attending the school. He alleged that the department’s policy of allowing children to spend up to four hours per day travelling to and from school was discriminatory.</p> -
Rights and Freedoms
17 January 2019Media ReleaseFinalists announced – 2018 Human Rights Law Award
<p>The five finalists for the 2018 Human Rights Awards’ Law Award have been selected, with two from Western Australia competing for the prize.</p> <p>“We have received the highest number of entries for the Law Award since the Human Rights Awards the awards began in 1987,” said Commission President, Professor Rosalind Croucher.</p> <p>Accessing legal services remains a major hurdle for disadvantaged Australians and those seeking to have their discrimination cases heard.</p> -
Race Discrimination
27 October 2022SpeechDisability Royal Commission: Race Discrimination Commissioner
Statement by Chin Tan relating to barriers by people with disability of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
19 November 2019SpeechStrong Communities, Strong Kids, AbSec Biennial Conference
<h1 style="margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-size:14pt"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif">Acknowledgements and Introductions </span></span></span></span></h1> -
14 December 2012Book page
It's About Time - Chapter 6
6.1 Introduction 6.2 Developing principles for a carer-friendly welfare system 6.3 Current government assistance for families 6.4 Support for all types of families and care needs 6.5 Supporting parents and other carers to work and care 6.6 The need for a consistent and integrated system 6.7 The interaction of taxation and welfare systems 6.8 Fairness in the taxation system for all family types and all caring responsibilities 6.9 Lower effective marginal taxation rates 6.10 Fringe Benefit Tax and tax deductibility of child care 6.11 Linking superannuation to care 6.12 Conclusion -
8 December 2020Book page
Part 2: Supporting strong families and communities
Learn about issues that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls face and the legal and social initiatives that work to address them. -
14 December 2012Book page
Chapter 3 - Introduction: Social Justice Report 2009
When I commenced writing this chapter in 2008, Australia did not have a national Indigenous languages policy. However in August 2009, for the first time in Australia’s history, the Commonwealth Government launched a strategy for preserving Indigenous languages: Indigenous Languages - A National Approach 2009 (National Approach). The National Approach sets out the Commonwealth Government’s plan to preserve Indigenous languages through targeted actions. They are: -
Children's Rights
12 May 2023News story
Webinar recording: Now is the time to reimagine schools
Global thought leaders invite the Australian community to reinvent schools as places that equally support children's learning and wellbeing -
14 December 2012Book page
Annual Report 2008-2009: Appendix 6
The Commission reviews staff performance annually through its Performance Management Scheme. The Scheme provides an opportunity to set goals and priorities in line with our Strategic Plan and to assess the level of individual performance and contribution to Unit outcomes. The Scheme also provides an opportunity to identify and address learning and development needs and to plan effectively for the acquisition of identified skill requirements. -
14 December 2012Book page
Annual Report 2007-2008: Appendix 5 - Human Resources and Administrative Services
HREOC reviews staff performance annually through its Performance Management Scheme. The Scheme provides an opportunity to set goals and priorities and assess the level of individual performance and contribution to Unit outcomes. -
Commission – General
14 December 2022Speech2022 Human Rights Day Oration by Larissa Behrendt
<h3><strong>"No More Just Tinkering at the Edges"<br> Human Rights Day Oration&nbsp;by&nbsp;</strong>Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt AO</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jAjtTIiIvvE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p> <p>9 December 2022</p> <p>I pay my respects to the Gadigal and the Elders who have kept knowledge on this country and shared so generously this unceded land.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> -
Legal
14 December 2012WebpageNational Human Rights Consultation - Appendix 4
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.[13] -
Disability Rights
29 October 2019SpeechInclusive education: Why silence and inaction is not the answer
<p><strong>DR BEN GAUNTLETT<br><br> DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION COMMISSIONER<br><br> AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION<br><br> <br><br> QUEEN VICTORIA WOMEN'S CENTRE, MELBOURNE&nbsp;<br><br> 28 OCTOBER 2019</strong></p> -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 2001: Chapter 1: Ten years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
The year 2001 marked the tenth anniversary of the final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. The 5 volumes and 339 recommendations that comprise the national report of Commissioner Johnston remain among the most extensive, frank and devastating examinations of the impact of colonialism on the Indigenous peoples of this country. -
Rights and Freedoms
26 June 2020Publication
Implementing OPCAT in Australia (2020)
The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) aims to improve how people’s human rights are protected when they are detained. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Submission - Access To Aboriginal Land Under The Northern Territory Land Rights Act February 2007
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Federal Government"s Discussion Paper: Access to Aboriginal Land under the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act - Time for Change? -
14 December 2012Book page
AusHRC 45: Mr Al Jenabi v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Immigration and Citizenship)
I have completed my report of an inquiry into the complaint made pursuant to section 11(1)(f)(ii) of the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth) by Mr Al Jenabi. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Report No. 28
Pursuant to section 11(1)(f)(ii) of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cth), I attach a report of my inquiry into complaints made by twenty six immigration detainees at the Curtin Immigration Reception and Processing Centre. I have found that acts or practices of the Commonwealth, namely placing some of the complainants in separation detention for periods of between three and eight months, were inconsistent with or contrary to the human rights of those detainees as provided for in Article 10(1) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.