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Rights and Freedoms14 December 2012Webpage
Index of Submissions: Discrimination in Employment on the Basic of Criminal Record
The Commission has changed names and details in some submissions posted on the website to protect individuals and organisations from identification. Please note that some submissions made to the Commission are confidential. -
Rights and Freedoms14 December 2012Speech
Launch of Sex Files: the legal recognition of sex on documents and government records (2009)
I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, and by paying my respects to their elders past and present. -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Submissions on Application for temporary exemption: Subscription television captioning
Submissions on Application for temporary exemption: Subscription television captioning Submissions responding to notice of inquiry Deafness Forum of Australia (MS Word zipped) Media Access Australia (MS Word zipped) Blind Citizens Australia (MS Word) Deaf Australia (MS Word) Ms Marika Balaza NSW Disability Discrimination Legal Centre (MS Word) ... -
Children's Rights17 February 2016Project
Submissions - examination of family and domestic violence affecting children
62 written submissions were received in response to the National Children's Commissioner's examination into the impact of family and domestic violence affecting children in 2015. Submissions were received from individuals, government, private and non-government organisations. Some submissions are redacted to protect privacy and confidentiality. Submission 1 - Professor Patricia Easteal Submission ... -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Submissions on Application for temporary exemption: Subscription television captioning
Submissions in response to revised exemption application: Subscription television captioning (ASTRA ) See now ASTRA response to request for comment (MS Word) See also notice of inquiry and request for comment from applicants on issues raised in submissions Media Access Australia (MS Word 2007) Deafness Council of Australia (MS Word) Vision Australia (MS Word) Deafness Forum of Australia(MS Word) ... -
14 December 2012Book page
Comments on submissions in response to first draft employment standards
These comments were prepared in 1996 by HREOC staff acting as secretariat to the subcommittee of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation considering development of disability standards on employment under the DDA. This document summarises submissions received on the first draft of standards and provides commentary on those submissions. -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Commission submissions: Baird
1. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (‘the Commission’) has been granted leave to intervene in the hearing of this matter, in the exercise of its function under s 20(1)(e) of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) (‘the RDA’). -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Speech
Integration of Customary Law into the Australian Legal System: Calma
I’d like to begin by acknowledging the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional owners and custodians of the land where we are gathered today, and pay my respects to their elders. -
Legal10 June 2021Submission
Submission on the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (High Risk Terrorist Offenders) Bill 2020
The Australian Human Rights Commission makes this submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security in relation to its Review of the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (High Risk Terrorist Offenders) Bill 2020 (Cth) introduced by the Australian Government. ... -
4 June 2015Book page
Appendix 6: Submissions
2013 Declared Places (Mentally Impaired Accused) Bill 2013 Submission to the Disability Services Commission, Western Australia Contemporary Community Safeguards Inquiry Submission to the Australian Communications and Media Authority Civics and Citizenship Draft Curriculum Submission to the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority Business and Economics Draft Curriculum Submission ... -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Submissions in response to application for temporary exemption: Airnorth
Regional Airlines Association of Australia H.Rumley South Australia Department of Transport (MS Word) National Transport Secretariat (MS Word) S. Sellar (MS Word) Darwin Community Legal Service (MS Word W.Jones -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Commission submissions: Langer
1. An appeal lies to the Federal Court from "a judgment or order of a prescribed court exercising jurisdiction ~der" section 383 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 ("the Electoral Act'): sections. 383(9). A prescribed court is defined in sub-section 383(11) to include the Supreme Court of Victoria. -
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. -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Cinema captioning exemption application: Request for responses to issues raised in submissions
I write to you concerning your application under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) for a Temporary Exemption in relation to the provision of captioning and audio description. -
Legal19 July 2013Webpage
Commission submissions: Coral Wilson
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA No. CIV 1522 of 2013 IN THE MATTER of an application for a Writ of Certiorari against the Honourable Joseph Michael Francis MLA the Minister for Corrective Services for the State of Western Australia and Ian Johnson the Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Corrective Serves; ex parte Coral Wilson BETWEEN: CORAL WILSON Applicant - and - JOSEPH ... -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Submissions on CASA exemption application
Airservices Australia (MS Word) A. Denman (MS Word) Dr A.Pape Flight Attendants Association W.Hamilton (MS Word) Civil Air Association (MS Word) R.Stanbury D.Nixon H.Sayers H.Ragg Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association / Association of Women Pilots (MS Word) -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Intervention: Annotated Submissions on Behlaf of the Australian Human Rights Commission (Intervening)
The Commission has an interest and expertise in relation to the rights of transgender persons generally, and transsexuals more particularly, as set out in paragraphs 7 and 12 of the affidavit of Catherine Branson filed on 27 April 2011. Accordingly it will be able to assist the Court by way of these written submissions and, if appropriate, by way of oral submissions. -
Children's Rights30 November 2016Webpage
Children’s Rights Report 2016: Government Responses and Submissions Received
< Back to Childrens Rights Report 2016 Chapters 3 and 4 of the 2016 Child Rights Report focus on the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) in the context of youth justice in Australia. For the purpose of her 2016 Report, the National Children’s Commissioner requested information from all Government Departments ... -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Submissions on ARA exemption application
This page provides links to submissions provided in response to the Commission's notice of inquiry on the Australasian Railway Association's application for exemption under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act. Submissions are posted in the form received (except for removal of individual contact details in some cases) and are the responsibility of their authors. -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Commission submissions: Mt Isa Mines
1. I am the Secretary of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (hereinafter referred to as the Commission) and am duly authorised to make this affidavit.