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14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Lutheran Community Care, South Australia is pleased to use the opportunity to make a submission to the above Inquiry, based upon extensive experience and expertise in working with families, including refugee families. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
Presentation toRound Table on Information Access For People with Print Disabilities
I've always had a yearning to be in the Guinness Book of Records, and so I decided, in preparation for today, to give the shortest presentation ever made by a staff member of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. My presentation thus consists of just seven letters: a question of 4 letters, and an answer of 3 letters. The question is SSDD, and the answer is DDA. -
Disability Rights22 March 2024Webpage
The IncludeAbility Employer Network - Rio Tinto
Learn of Rio Tinto’s commitment to all voices and cultures being respected, and a variety of perspectives not only being welcome, but essential to success. -
Commission – General14 December 2012Webpage
Media Contacts
We regularly prepare and distribute media releases, opinion pieces, speeches, media kits and fact sheets on the work that the Commission undertakes. Our website also provides extensive research and project information. -
Rights and Freedoms1 May 2013Webpage
Freedom of information, opinion and expression
The ICCPR safeguards freedom of expression and opinion, vital for democratic societies. Find out how legal restrictions apply. -
14 December 2012Book page
A Time to Value - Part A
In August 2001, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) began a comprehensive examination of the need or otherwise for a national paid maternity leave scheme in Australia. -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees10 January 2014Webpage
Asylum seekers and refugees guide
Learn everything about refugee and asylum seeker issues, such as immigration detention, legal rights, protection visas and enhanced screening. -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 1998 : Chapter 2: Non-Indigenous Community Responses
You would be hard pressed to find a newspaper, television or radio station that did not make mention of Sorry Day activities and National Reconciliation events over the past week. -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Commission submission - MING DUNG LUU
1. These submissions are filed pursuant to the directions given by the Full Court and conveyed to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission ("the Commission") in a facsimile from the Associate to the Honourable Justice Gray dated 17 December 2001. They are directed only to the issues raised in the respondent's submissions of 23 November 2001 (including the respondent's submissions on the issue of costs - which were not foreshadowed at the hearing). -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
The DDA and its impact in the area of Education
Perhaps it's just because I'm getting older, but I increasingly have the feeling that Australia is becoming a more sentimental and nostalgic nation. We have a Prime Minister whose vision for us is to be relaxed and comfortable. And many of us spent last night - after watching the final stages of the Australian cricket juggernaut's comprehensive winning of the ashes for the eighth time in a row - watch a bunch of old blokes who used to be rock and roll singers showing us that it was a long way to the top. Haven't we got anything more exciting to do than that? -
Commission – General6 March 2013Speech
Asylum Seekers, Marriage Equality and Racial Vilification: What role for the AHRC? (2012)
Speech delivered to the Anglo-Australasian Lawyers Society -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Inquiry into Stolen Wages
Only about 10% of people potentially affected took part in the consultation process; it was presented as a once only 'take it or leave it' offer, placing considerable stress on people often living in dire economic circumstances; there was a lack of independent legal advice on the implications of accepting the offer; and there was significant confusion as to the purpose of the consultations...[10] -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Inquiry into the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 and Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (2009)
The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission)[1] welcomes the opportunity to make this Submission to the Australian Government Review of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 (Cth) (the EOWW Act) and the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (the EOWA). -
14 December 2012Book page
Report of the National Inquiry into Pregnancy and Work - HREOC assessment of Government Responses to Recommendations
Recommendation 1: That the Attorney-General amend the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) to empower HREOC to publish enforceable standards in relation to pregnancy and potential pregnancy. -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
GRANT OF TEMPORARY EXEMPTION: MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT S.A. and OTHERS
By this instrument the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission ("the Commission"), pursuant to an application under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 ("the Act") on behalf of the Minister for Transport of the State of South Australia, TransAdelaide and the South Australian Passenger Transport Board ("the applicants") grants an exemption in the following terms: -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Recommendation for temporary exemption: Tactile Ground Surface Indicators (Queensland Rail)
I recommend that, pursuant to an application under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act ("the DDA"), the Commission grant Queensland Rail a temporary exemption from sections 23 and 24 of the DDA so far as they require installation of Tactile Ground Surface Indicators. -
14 December 2012Book page
National Inquiry into Childen in Immigration Detention - Background Paper 1: Introduction
In November 2001, the Human Rights Commissioner announced an Inquiry into the adequacy and appropriateness of Australia's treatment of child asylum seekers and other children who are, or have been, held in immigration detention, including: -
Sex Discrimination9 April 2018Media Release
AHRC to review residential colleges at the University of New England
The Australian Human Rights Commission will conduct an independent review of residential colleges at the University of New England (UNE) in the regional centre of Armidale, NSW. The University has seven residential colleges, currently home to approximately 1800 students. The Australian Human Rights Commission’s landmark Change the course: National report on sexual assault and sexual harassment at ... -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Ballarat Health and Fitness Pty Ltd
By this instrument, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (‘the Commission’) grants to Ballarat Health and Fitness Pty Ltd a temporary exemption pursuant to s 44(1) of the Sex Discrimination Act (Cth) 1984 (‘the SDA’) in the terms set out in section 3 below. -
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.
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