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14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? Education
Media Pack Homepage Statements by Dr Sev Ozdowski, Human Rights Commissioner (Audio Files for Download) Inquiry Commissioner and Assistants Biographies About the Inquiry Inquiry Methodology Terms of Reference Useful Links and Resources -
14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? International law
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14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? Case examples
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14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? Inquiry method
Media Pack Homepage Statements by Dr Sev Ozdowski, Human Rights Commissioner (Audio Files for Download) Inquiry Commissioner and Assistants Biographies About the Inquiry Inquiry Methodology Terms of Reference Useful Links and Resources -
4 February 2015Book page
3 Methodology
<ul> <li><a href="#a3-1">3.1 Terms of Reference</a></li> <li><a href="#a3-2">3.2 Methodology</a></li> <li><a href="#a3-3">3.3 Definitions</a></li> <li><a href="#a3-4">3.4 Timeframe for the report </a></li> <li><a href="#a3-5">3.5 Commission’s previous work concerning children in detention </a></li> <li><a href="#a3-6">3.6 Structure of the report </a></li> </ul> <hr> <p>On 3 February 2014, the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission launched the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention.</p> -
14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? Biographies
Media Pack Homepage Statements by Dr Sev Ozdowski, Human Rights Commissioner (Audio Files for Download) Inquiry Commissioner and Assistants Biographies About the Inquiry Inquiry Methodology Terms of Reference Useful Links and Resources -
14 December 2012Book page
1. Introduction
Please do not limit the audience of these reports to the Immigration Department and the Minister. We would like to urge you to educate the public to pass on the report to newspapers and the other electronic media so that the public can learn what is going on in the immigration detention camp, and I know that public opinion is shifting when they become aware of what is happening. Father, Port Hedland, June 2002 -
Commission – General14 December 2012Speech
Keynote address to the Victoria Legal Aid Civil Justice Law and Practice Conference
I would like to begin this morning by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to their elders past and present. -
14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? Audio files
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Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Inquiry into the administration and operation of the Migration Act 1958
Thank you for inviting the Commission to make a submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee's Inquiry into the administration and operation of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) ('Migration Act'). -
14 December 2012Book page
Executive Summary
This executive summary is divided into two parts. Part A sets out the major findings and recommendations of the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention (the Inquiry). Part B provides a chapter summary of the Inquiry's report: A last resort? -
14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? - Summary Guide: About the Inquiry
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission was established in 1986. It is an independent statutory organisation and reports to the federal Parliament through the Attorney-General. -
14 December 2012Book page
17. Major Findings and Recommendations of the Inquiry
In addition to the detailed findings in each of Chapters 5-16, the Inquiry has made the following major findings in relation to Australia's mandatory immigration detention system as it applied to children who arrived in Australia without a visa (unauthorised arrivals) over the period 1999-2002. -
14 December 2012Book page
A Last Resort? - Summary Guide (2004)
It was established to consider whether Australia's immigration detention laws and its treatment of children in immigration detention comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. -
14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? - Summary Guide: Major findings and recommendations
The Inquiry has found that Australian laws that require the mandatory immigration detention of children, and the way these laws are administered by the Commonwealth, have resulted in numerous and repeated breaches of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. -
14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? - Summary Guide: Preface
The arrest, detention or imprisonment of a child shall be … used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time. -
14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? - Summary Guide: Mental Health
I felt so bad staying in a place surrounded by razor fence. I can’t understand and I always asked ‘Why did they take me here?’ … It was scary. -
29 January 2015Book page
1 Introduction
<ul> <li><a href="#a1-1">1.1 A snapshot of children in detention </a></li> <li><a href="#a1-2">1.2 Australian law and the detention of children</a></li> <li><a href="#a1-3">1.3 Does the Government owe a duty of care to children in detention?</a></li> <li><a href="#a1-4">1.4 International law and the detention of children</a></li> </ul> <p align="right"><em>My hope finished now. I don’t have any hope. I feel I will die in detention</em>.</p> <p align="right">(Unaccompanied 17 year old, Phosphate Hill Detention Centre, Christmas Island, 4 March 2014)</p> -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Commission submissions: Sakhi
1. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (“the Commission”) seeks the leave of the Court to intervene to make submissions in this case. -
14 December 2012Book page
2. Inquiry Methodology
The Inquiry has been committed to hearing from all parties in the Australian community who have been involved with the immigration detention of children.