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Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
Spinning an Accessible Web
One day during the Christmas school holidays, my nine-year-old daughter came into the loungeroom, where I was relaxing with a glass of Scotch, and said: "Dad, the window won't pop up -- you have to come and fix it". -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
Disability Discrimination Bill 1992: Explanatory memorandum
Part 1: Preliminary Clause 1 - Short Title Clause 2 - Commencement Clause 3- Objects Clause 4 -Interpretation Clause 5 - Disability discrimination Clause 6 - Indirect disability discrimination Clause 7 - Disability discrimination palliative and therapeutic devices and auxiliary aids Clause 8 - Disability discrimination interpreters. readers and assistants Clause 9 - Disability discrimination - guide dogs. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Annual Report 2003-2004 : Chapter 1 : The Commission
The Commission is a national independent statutory body established under the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986. It has a President and five Commissioners. The five positions are currently held by three persons. Please refer to the organisational chart on page 12 for further information. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Speech
Site navigation
We are on Aboriginal land – and as a mark of respect to the traditional owners of this country – I want to recognise their culture and their law because they are integral to what we now call Coogee. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
The continuing battle for equal rights for people with a disability
I have to admit that two months ago when I took the title " The Disability Discrimination Act and the continuing battle for equal rights for people with a disability" for my paper today I was not attaching great importance to the precise words of that title. -
14 December 2012Book page
20 Years on: The Challenges Continue - Chapter 4
Almost one in three targets of sexual harassment in Australian workplaces in the last five years formally reported it either to employers or to external agencies, the majority reporting it to their manager, supervisor or employer. Very few targets reported the sexual harassment to external agencies. -
14 December 2012Book page
Report No. 40: Complaints by immigration detainees against the Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Immigration and Citizenship, formerly the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs) and GSL (Australia) Pty Ltd (2008)
Pursuant to section 11(1)(f)(ii) of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cth), I attach a report of an inquiry by the former President of the Commission into complaints made by immigration detainees against the Commonwealth of Australia. The former President found that the Commonwealth had breached the human rights of the complainants pursuant to articles 10(1) and 17(1) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
Commission Determinations, DDA decisions
Prior to changes made by the Human Rights Legislation Amendment Act 1999 which took effect in April 2000, the Australian Human Rights Commission conducted hearings and made determinations on Disability Discrimination Act complaints referred to it by the Disability Discrimination Commissioner or delegate. Complaints were referred to the Commission because the complaint could not be settled by conciliation or because the nature of the matter was such that it should be determined by the Commission. -
Sex Discrimination7 February 2020Publication
Respect@Work: Community Guide to the Sexual Harassment National Inquiry Report (2020)
Also available: Full Report A message from the Commissioner Australia was once at the forefront of tackling sexual harassment globally. Women’s organisations in Australia began to press for the legal and social recognition of sex discrimination in the early 1970s. This movement built on Australia’s ratification of two key international conventions: the International Labour Organization’s ... -
Commission – General14 December 2012Speech
National Legal Aid Best practice Conference
I would like to acknowledge the Kaurna People, the traditional owners of the land on which we stand and pay my respects to their elders, both past and present. -
Rights and Freedoms14 December 2012Speech
Introducing human rights law: Chris Sidoti (1997)
International law deals with many matters of importance to everyday life: access to the water of rivers for navigation, irrigation and drinking; transport by sea and air; environmental protection; the arrest and extradition of those accused or convicted of crimes. International law provides protection in international life and locally. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
Speech - iPhone or Trombone: Age or Disability Don't Have to be Barriers (2012)
Alan used to work as a civil engineer, and is a trombone player with two orchestras and two bands. He has competed in the Australian Band Championships for the last three years. He sold his soils laboratory to 'retire', and has never looked back. He still works part-time in soil testing, but as well as trombone playing he is a volunteer in a Rotary shop, walks 30-40 kilometers weekly, won a silver medal in the 10 km Road Race in the Australian Masters Games 2012, and completed a novel for pre-teens called 'Alex', designed to raise awareness about healthy lifestyles. -
Commission – General14 December 2012Speech
President speeches: How to Proactively Manage Workplace Grievances
Ladies and Gentlemen I am very pleased to be at the Catholic Independent Schools Employment Relations Committee Conference. Occasions such as this one allow me, as President of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, to share with a very influential group my thoughts about how we can all better manage the complexity and diversity of today’s working environments. -
28 November 2014Book page
Resources
Activity and Resource Sheets Rights Ed Activity Sheet: Picture Difference Pictures A Picture 1A Source : http://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/good-bad-and-ugly-design-and… Picture 2A Source: http://www.sydneytrains.info/stations/station_details.htm Picture 3A Source: Photograph taken by Wotjek Gurak on Flikr Rights Ed Activity Sheet: Picture Difference Pictures B Picture ... -
Commission – General14 December 2012Speech
President Speech: In the national interest: the promotion and protection of human rights
Thank you for the opportunity to speak here today. I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Ngunnawal peoples, and pay my respects to their elders past and present. -
Complaint Information Service14 December 2012Publication
ADR as a tool for social change: a discussion (2008)
Human rights and anti-discrimination law in Australia, as in many countries in the Asia Pacific, provides for complaints about discrimination and violations of human rights to be resolved by conciliation. The use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in this context has been criticised. In particular, it has been claimed that the individualised form of the complaint process, coupled with the confidential nature of conciliation outcomes, restricts the social reformative potential of human rights and anti-discrimination law. -
14 December 2012Book page
Isma-Listen: Eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australians
The meeting was chaired by the Deputy South Australian Equal Opportunity Commissioner, Ms Anne Burgess and facilitated by Omeima Sukkarieh, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (notes). It was attended by 21 invited participants. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
Maguire: Presentation to Ozewai Conference
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Although remembering some of my maths exam results, I'm not so sure that they have been as fascinated by me. If you ask a group of people to say the first number that comes into their heads, you'll get a lot of 7's. Perhaps it's because we all have an intuitive awareness that 7 is the smallest number of faces of a regular polygon that cannot be constructed with a ruler and compass. -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
olympic roads and transport authority exemption decision
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission gives notice of a decision made on 27 June 2000 under section 57 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 ("DDA") concerning accessible buses during the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. -
Business and Human Rights14 December 2012Speech
Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility (2009)
In our new strategic plan we commit to 'motivating big business to incorporate human rights into their everyday business practice'.