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14 December 2012Book page
It's About Time - Community Guide 2007
Striking the balance between paid work and family life has become more than a "barbeque stopper" - it is one of the major challenges facing families, employers and governments. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012PublicationAnnual Report 1999-2000
The year of this report saw several significant changes and developments within the Commission. Some were anticipated; some had been delayed; some were more welcome than others all led to a full and active twelve month period. -
Legal
14 December 2012WebpageReview of Australia’s Fourth Periodic Report on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
Recommendation 2: The Australian Government pass a federal Human Rights Act that includes recognition and protection of economic, social and cultural rights. -
Education25 February 2015Webpage
Face the facts: Asylum Seekers and Refugees
<h2>Statistics from 2014</h2><p><a href="/node/11161">Back to main Face the Facts page</a></p><p>All people are entitled to protection of their human rights, including the right to seek asylum, regardless of how or where they arrive in Australia.&nbsp;</p> -
Sex Discrimination
3 May 2021News story
Commission launches final report of the Independent Review of Gymnastics in Australia
<p>The Australian Human Rights Commission has today released the final report of the Independent Review of Gymnastics in Australia 2021 (the Review).</p> <p>The Commission was engaged by Gymnastics Australia in August 2020 to conduct the Review following the release of the documentary ‘Athlete A’, which prompted athletes in Australia to come forward with their own experiences.</p> -
Children's Rights
19 March 2014WebpageReporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child?
<h2>1 What is the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child?</h2> -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Notice of temporary exemption application: Northern Districts Model Engineering Society
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has received an application from the Northern Districts Model Engineering Society for a temporary exemption under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) from those provisions of the DDA which could otherwise require installation of a wheel chair lift to the first floor meeting room of the applicants' near complete clubrooms at Balcatta, Western Australia. . -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Application for exemption under DDA section 55: Cinema captioning and audio description
The Commission has received an application (linked in Word format) on behalf of Hoyts Corporation, Greater Union Organisation, Village Cinemas and Reading Cinemas (the applicants) for a Temporary Exemption under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) from complaints in relation to the provision of captions and audio description in cinemas operated by the applicants. -
Sex Discrimination
9 July 2018Opinion piece
Australia's journey to a National Inquiry into workplace sexual harassment
<p>The following opinion piece by the Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins appeared in Fairfax papers - SMH, the Age and The Canberra Times</p> <p>On 5 October 2017, I boarded a flight from Britain. By the time I landed in Melbourne, the world had changed. The New York Times story exposing decades of sexual harassment and assault perpetrated by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein had broken.&nbsp;<span>These allegations set off what can only be described as an avalanche, with women around the globe coming forward to tell their own stories of sexual harassment.</span></p> -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012SpeechLAUNCH OF ABA INDUSTRY STANDARDS
It was only ten months ago that I congratulated the Australian Bankers' Association on their commitment to making electronic based services more accessible to people with disabilities and older Australians. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Webpage
DDA conciliation: sport
A man with a mobility impairment complained that his golf club charged an extra fee for use of golf buggies, which disadvantaged him as he was unable to get around the course without one. The complaint was resolved when the club agreed to absorb golf buggy costs into general fees. (2008) -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
11 April 2013PublicationHuman Rights standards for immigration detention
This publication, Human rights standards for immigration detention, sets out benchmarks for the humane treatment of people held in immigration detention -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Project
Accommodation issues under the DDA and Disability Convention
Section 25 of the DDA makes it unlawful to discriminate in provision of accommodation on the grounds of disability of a person or his or her associates: -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
Hastings: Disability discrimination, standards, and OHS
The fact that CEOE is conducting this forum in itself indicates that disability is widely seen by business as presenting significant occupational health and safety (OH&S) issues. And certainly, concerns related to occupational health and safety are widely experienced by people with disabilities as barriers to equal opportunity in employment. -
LGBTIQ+
2 December 2014SpeechHomosexual Histories Conference 2014
<h2>Pride History Group Event</h2> <h3>1 Acknowledge traditional owners</h3> <p>I would like to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Traditional Owners of the land on which we are gathered and pay my respects to their elders, both past and present, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal people present.</p> -
Sex Discrimination
6 March 2018Speech
Sex Discrimination Commissioner delivers 2018 Pamela Denoon Lecture
<p><strong>2018 Pamela Denoon Lecture, ANU</strong><br><strong>Monday 5th March 2018</strong></p> <p>Good evening.</p> <p>I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and paying my respects to their elders past, present and emerging.</p> <p>I would also like to acknowledge both the organisers of this event and the women who have presented the Pamela Denoon lecture in the past.</p> -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Recommendation for temporary exemption: Murranumbla Bed and Breakfast
This is a recommendation for granting of a temporary exemption, for a period of 18 months, regarding disability access to bathroom facilities at a proposed bed and breakfast facility, on condition that within 12 months of the date of the exemption the operators commence work to provide accessible bathroom facilities and complete that work within 18 months of the date of the exemption. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Recommendation for temporary exemption: Northern Districts Model Engineering Society
The Commission has received an application from the Northern Districts Model Engineering Society for a temporary exemption under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) from those provisions of the DDA which could otherwise require installation of a wheel chair lift to the first floor meeting room of the applicants' near complete clubrooms at Balcatta, Western Australia. -
24 January 2017Opinion piece
We need a national picture of domestic violence homicides
<h3>Authors</h3> <p><strong>Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins and President of the Australian Human Rights Commission Professor Gillian Triggs</strong></p> <p>In March 2010, shortly after making the decision to leave her abusive husband after more than 20 years of violence, Zahra Abrahimzadeh was stabbed to death in front of 300 witnesses inside the Adelaide Convention Centre. Two years later, her husband was convicted of her murder.</p> -
Commission – General
24 September 2015Webpage
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