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14 December 2012Book page
Annual Report - Significant Achievements for 1999 - 2000
Back to 1999 - 2000 Annual Report Contents Annual Report 1999 - 2000 Significant Achievements for 1999 - 2000 Youth Challenge Program - A program for secondary school students Community Information/Education Program Commission Website update Engagement by President and Commissioners in media debate on range of issues Release of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner's ... -
Education14 December 2012Publication
Being Me: Knowing You resource (2010)
Being Me: Knowing You is designed for 11-15 year olds enrolled in community language schools. -
Education14 December 2012Publication
RightsED: Bringing them home (2010)
In 1997, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (now the Australian Human Rights Commission) released its report Bringing them home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. Following this, the Commission received extensive requests from teachers for information about the report. -
14 December 2012Book page
Community arrangements for asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons - Recommendations
Recommendation 2: The need to detain should be assessed on a case-by-case basis taking into consideration individual circumstances. That assessment should be conducted when a person is taken into immigration detention or as soon as possible thereafter. A person should only be held in a closed immigration detention facility if they are individually assessed as posing an unacceptable risk to the Australian community and that risk cannot be managed in a less restrictive way. -
Rights and Freedoms14 December 2012Opinion piece
Opening a door on the bleak truth of homelessness (2010)
The following opinion pieces have been published by the President and Commissioners. Reproduction of the opinion pieces must include reference to where the opinion piece was originally published. -
14 December 2012Book page
Mature Workers: 4. Help for Employers
Tackling discrimination and harassment in the workplace is legal obligation for all employers – but it’s also good for business. It can help you get the best for person for the job and reduce the potential for costly complaints and disruptions. -
Commission – General14 December 2012Webpage
Be a Supportive Bystander
What can you do if you see or know someone being bullied? Find out how to be a supportive bystander. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice10 April 2013Publication
Draft guidelines: Ensuring income management measures compliancy
The Commission has issued these draft guidelines to provide practical assistance to Parliament and the Government in designing and implementing income management measures that protect human rights and are consistent with the RDA. They are also intended to increase awareness among affected communities about the application of the RDA to income management regimes. -
Commission – General14 December 2012Webpage
Website information
Website Information Contact Information If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the site, contact us Purpose The purpose of this web site is to help the Australian Human Rights Commission fulfill its role of distributing information about human rights. The site aims to do so by presenting a clean, fast, consistent and easily navigable online interface onto the work of the ... -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Publication
Social Justice Report 2007
The report is provided in accordance with section 46C(1)(a) of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986. This provides that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner is to submit a report regarding the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders, and including recommendations as to the action that should be taken to ensure the exercise and enjoyment of human rights by those persons. -
14 December 2012Book page
Bringing them Home - Appendix 1.2
Amended by Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915 (NSW) Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1918 (NSW) Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1936 (NSW) Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1940 (NSW) Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1943 (NSW) Repealed by Aborigines Welfare Ordinance 1954 (Cth). -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Citizenship Bill 2005
1. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission ('the Commission') has been invited by the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee ('the Committee') to make submissions on the Australian Citizenship Bill ('the Bill'), which is intended to replace the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 (Cth) (the 'Citizenship Act') -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Notice of application for temporary exemption: Queensland and Western Australian Taxi Councils
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has received an application (attached in MS Word format) together with a supporting affidavit (MS Word format) from the Taxi Council of Queensland and the Taxi Council of Western Australia on behalf of their respective members, for exemption from the operation of Part 1.2 of Schedule 1 of the Disability Standards for Accessible Transport 2002 and from the operation of section 24 of the Disability Discrimination Act (“the DDA”) so far as it would have the same effect as this provision of the Standards. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Speech
Constitutional Reform: Creating a Nation for all of us (2011)
I also acknowledge my Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters here today, Mr Mark Nolan (Chair of the Eidos Institute) and Professor Bruce Muirhead (CEO of the Eidos Institute), Institute Board Members, University representatives, distinguished guests. -
Age Discrimination19 March 2014Speech
Age Discrimination, the new challenge for teachers
Teacher’s Federation Council -
22 July 2013Book page
Chapter 4: Implementation of Review Recommendations
This chapter outlines the structure and processes for implementing the Review’s recommendations. It describes the overarching framework and approach to reform at ADFA. This chapter also identifies risks to implementation of recommendations and the sustainability of cultural change. 1 In summary: The Audit is confident that the recommendations are being implemented with a view to creating lasting ... -
Children's Rights30 June 2014Speech
National priorities, child’s perspective: Lessons from the Big Banter
Insights into national priorities from a child’s perspective, a speech by Megan Mitchell National Children's Commissioner. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
This submission will consider the issue of ‘statelessness’ and its consequences for the nationality of children in detention [2], focussing specifically on those children who are born into immigration detention in Australia. It will address the first term of reference [3] for the Inquiry. The submission will first consider the right to nationality at international law and the problem of ‘statelessness’, before discussing Australia’s domestic law. -
Race Discrimination20 October 2017Webpage
Race Discrimination Guides
Guides and advice by the Australian Human Rights Commission The Commission may issue guidance and advice to assist persons and organisations with responsibilities under the legislation to avoid discrimination and meet their responsibilities. This guidance or advice is not legally binding regulation. Guides Race Hate and the Racial Discrimination Act (2016) At a glance: Racial vilification under ... -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2010: Recommendations
That targeted research is undertaken to develop the evidence base and tools to address lateral violence as it relates to the native title system. This research should be supported by the Australian Government.