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Commission – General14 December 2012Webpage
“Human Writes” Essay Competition 2006
Senior Essay - Ashish Thomas, ‘War on terrorism and human rights’ - Winner (PDF - 196 KB) Senior Essay - Larissa Fogden, ‘One simple moment’ - Runner Up (PDF - 92 KB) Senior Essay - Laura Celine Haughey, ‘The Rights of the Innocent’ - Highly Commended (PDF - 136 KB) Senior Essay - Keely Gordon-King, ‘Guantanamo Bay’ - Highly Commended (PDF - 164 KB) Senior Essay - Tanvir Uddin, ‘In Truth and Education’ - Highly Commended (PDF - 155 KB) -
Rights and Freedoms4 February 2019Speech
Roles, responsibilities and challenges
<h2>The Australian Human Rights Commission—roles, responsibilities and challenges</h2> <p><strong>Supreme and Federal Court Judges’ Conference 2019</strong><br><strong>Hobart, 22 January 2019</strong></p> <p>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM</p> <p>[Professor Croucher spoke to this paper]</p> <h3>Introduction</h3> <p>I begin my presentation by acknowledging the traditional custodians of this land, and pay my respect to the elders, past, present, and emerging.</p> <p>Thank you Justice Pearce for your warm introduction.</p> -
Legal14 December 2012Speech
Human Rights and Climate Change: A Tragedy in the Making - Hon John von Doussa QC
I am very pleased to be here talking about Human Rights and Climate Change in the first of HREOC’s seminar series celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the ‘Declaration’).1 -
Legal10 October 2017Submission
Information concerning Australia’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (2017)
This submission provides information concerning the civil and political rights of key population groups in Australia and other thematic issues engaging civil and political rights. In relation to each section, the Commission has referred to the relevant articles of the ICCPR engaged and (where appropriate) the relevant paragraph of the Committee’s list of issues prior to reporting dated 9 November 2012. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice26 June 2020News story
Commission evidence to FASD Inquiry
<p>The Australian Human Rights Commission is calling for the Australian Government to adopt community led responses informed by targeted investment in research, education, training, diagnosis and treatment to combat Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).</p> <p>The Commission yesterday gave evidence before the&nbsp;Senate Community Affairs References Committee's Inquiry into the effective approaches to prevention, diagnosis and support for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.</p> -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees8 January 2014Publication
An age of uncertainty - Inquiry into the treatment of individuals suspected of people smuggling offences who say that they are children
This report makes disturbing reading. It documents numerous breaches by Australia of both the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. As a nation that is understandably anxious that the rights of our own children should be respected when they come into contact with the authorities of other countries, it is troubling that between late 2008 and late 2011 Australian authorities apparently gave little weight to the rights of this cohort of young Indonesians. -
Rights and Freedoms14 December 2012Speech
"Monitoring Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: challenges for Australia: Dr Sev Ozdowski (2002)
Thank you Mr Wishardt for your invitation and kind introduction. I would like also to acknowledge Ms Wendy McCarthy, under whose stewardship PLAN is sure to go from strength to strength. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice19 November 2019Speech
Strong 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
RightsED: Child rights - Introduction
All people – no matter their age, sex, colour, religion or where they live – have the same basic needs to live a healthy life. These needs include food, shelter, education, healthcare and freedom from persecution and discrimination. -
Children's Rights30 June 2014Speech
Safeguarding mental health of children, ensuring opportunity to thrive
Safeguarding mental health for children and ensuring opportunity, a speech by Megan Mitchell National Children's Commissioner. -
Commission – General14 December 2012Speech
Why we need an Australian Bill of Rights - a Joint Forum
The first is that HREOC has been suggesting for a considerable time that there needs to be renewed public debate on whether Australia should have a charter of human rights of some sort. It seems that the launch of the New Matilda campaign will give momentum to such a debate. A lot has changed, both nationally and internationally since the unsuccessful attempts of the 1970s and the 1980s to interest Australians in a bill of rights. As is so often said, Australia has now become the only major Western democracy that does not have a bill of rights. -
Rights and Freedoms1 May 2013Webpage
Rights of non-citizens
Learn about how under international law, human rights are to be recognised for all individuals in Australia, including refugees and asylum seekers. -
14 December 2012Book page
Complaint statistics - Annual Report 2009-2010: Australian Human Rights Commission
*Complaints in this category were not conciliable and therefore transferred from the Commission’s Complaint Handling Section to the Legal Section for further inquiry and possible reporting. -
14 December 2012Book page
Complaint statistics - Annual Report 2009-2010: Australian Human Rights Commission
*Complaints in this category were not conciliable and therefore transferred from the Commission’s Complaint Handling Section to the Legal Section for further inquiry and possible reporting. -
Commission – General14 December 2012Speech
A national approach to child rights
I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and to pay my respects to their elders both past and present. -
Legal14 December 2012Speech
Dignity, Fairness and Good Government: The Role of a Human Rights Act - Lord Bingham
It would clearly test to destruction the tolerance of the ordinary red-blooded Australian to have a Pom getting off the plane from London and telling them how to run their country. So I shall not presume to say how the current human rights debate in this country should be resolved. But perhaps I may contribute some thoughts, prompted by our own experience in the United Kingdom, acknowledging as I do so that the Australian context, while in some ways similar, is in others significantly different. -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Review 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. -
Rights and Freedoms22 October 2020Speech
Opening statement – Senate Estimates
Explore the 2020 senate estimates opening speech by the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice15 June 2015Publication
Know your rights: Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanders (2014)
This brochure explains what racial discrimination is and what you can do it you experience it, as well as the work of the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. -
Commission – General14 December 2012Speech
Promoting Human Rights - Good Governance, the Rule of Law and Democracy
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world