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Rights and Freedoms4 April 2023Submission
Addressing Human Trafficking, Slavery and Slavery-like Practices
Learn how the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) can be amended to better address human trafficking and slavery-like practices. -
Commission – General15 March 2024Speech
Australian Human Rights Commission’s complaint handling jurisdiction
<h2>Civil Justice Research Conference 2019&nbsp;</h2><h2>Macquarie University, Sydney</h2><p><strong>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM&nbsp;</strong></p><p>[<em>Professor Croucher spoke to this paper</em>]</p> -
Disability Rights20 September 2022Speech
Australia's Disability Strategy, Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The compartmentalisation of disability policy has meant people with disability, or their representatives, are often expected to have the information and evidence to justify policy change and even when they do make their case, they need multiple levels and areas of government to support them. -
Commission – General10 December 2021Speech
Human Rights Day Oration 2021: Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher
<h2>Human Rights Day Oration 2021</h2> <p>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM</p> <p>President, Australian Human Rights Commission</p> <p>Friday, December 10, 2021</p> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>On behalf of the Australian Human Rights Commission, welcome to Human Rights Day for 2021!</p> <p>I am speaking today from the traditional lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging—and to the traditional custodians of the lands from wherever you may joining me today.</p> -
Rights and Freedoms30 November 2022Speech
Reforming Age Discrimination Law
<h2>Reforming Age Discrimination Law: Beyond Individual Enforcement, Alysia Blackham (2022)</h2><h3>Panel discussion Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM</h3><p>President, Australian Human Rights Commission</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am speaking today from the traditional lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging—and to the traditional custodians of the lands from wherever you are zooming in today.</p> -
Business and Human Rights19 December 2023Submission
Victim-survivors of Forced Marriage
Learn more about how forced marriage violates human rights and how Australia can better protect victim-survivors. -
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> -
Disability Rights22 November 2019Speech
Speech to National Labor Disability Summit
<p><strong>Dr Ben Gauntlett<br><br> National Labor Disability Summit<br><br> Melbourne<br><br> November 1, 2019</strong></p> <p><br><br> Good disability policy benefits all Australians. &nbsp;When we think of disability policy, it is not “us” and “them”, it is "we", we the people of Australia need good disability policy because it reflects our values of diversity and inclusion. &nbsp;It reflects our human rights obligations and there are critical economic arguments for why we need to have good disability policy.</p> -
Sex Discrimination3 December 2020Speech
The Beijing Platform for Action, 25 years on: Progress, Retreat and the Future of Women's Rights
<p><strong>Beijing Platform for Action at 25: Progress, Retreat and the Future of Women's Rights<br><br> Opening Address<br><br> Thursday 3 December, 10:00 am<br><br> Kate Jenkins, Sex Discrimination Commissioner</strong><br><br> <br><br> Hello everyone. My name is Kate Jenkins, and I have had the honour of serving as Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner for the past four years.</p> <p>I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional lands of our nation’s first people. I am presenting today from the lands of the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation.</p> -
Rights and Freedoms14 March 2024Speech
The Perils of Independence
<h2>The Australian Human Rights Commission’s role in protecting human rights in Australia</h2><h3>Sir Ronald Wilson Lecture 2021&nbsp;</h3><p><strong>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>President, Australian Human Rights Commission&nbsp;</strong></p><h3><strong>Acknowledgements</strong>&nbsp;</h3><p>Thank you Matthew McGuire for your welcome to country and Kendra Turner as MC.&nbsp;</p> -
14 December 2012Book page
Bringing them Home - Chapter 25
State and Territory legislation, programs and policies in the areas of child welfare, adoption and juvenile justice are intended to provide a non-discriminatory framework for the administration of services. In many cases, programs are designed with the objective of reducing the extent of contemporary removals of Indigenous children and young people. In spite of this, the over-representation of Indigenous children among children living separately from their families and communities, temporarily or permanently, remains high. -
14 December 2012Book page
Bringing them Home - Chapter 17
In each State and Territory with the exception of the ACT specific funding is made available for specialised assistance to Indigenous people seeking family information and reunion support. -
14 December 2012Book page
Bringing them Home - Chapter 18
Indigenous mental health is finally on the national agenda. As participants in the National Mental Health Strategy, States and Territories acknowledge the importance of the issue. Some of the effects of removal including loss and grief, reduced parenting skills, child and youth behavioural problems and youth suicide are increasingly recognised. -
Rights and Freedoms5 May 2019Speech
40+ years of conciliation
<h2>The Australian Human Rights Commission and Conciliation—a 40+ year success story, but …</h2> <h3>National Mediation Conference, Canberra</h3> <p><strong>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM</strong></p> <p>[Professor Croucher spoke to this paper]</p> -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Review of Counter-Terrorism and National Security Legislation
Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention. No one shall be deprived of his liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedure as are established by law. -
14 December 2012Book page
Bringing them Home - Chapter 24
The most distressing aspect about the level of juvenile justice intrusion in the lives of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is the fact that entry into the system is usually the start of a long career of incarceration for many (SNAICC submission 309 page 28). -
14 December 2012Book page
Sterilisation
This paper will highlight the findings of research examining Family Court and state Guardianship Tribunal's originating materials and written reports from 'experts' and family members. It includes all sterilisation cases involving minors that have proceeded to legal judgment in Australia between 1992-1998. The central assertion is that non-consensual sterilisation continues to be framed as a medical problem to be 'cured' for family and social reasons. -
15 July 2014Book page
Chapter 2: Looking back on 20 years of native title and the Social Justice Commissioner role
<h2>2.1 Introduction<sup><strong><a href="#fn1" name="fnB1">[1]</a></strong></sup></h2> -
Rights and Freedoms17 January 2019Speech
Human rights in the 21st century
<h2>Human rights in the 21st century—Reflections on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights</h2> <h3>Australian Council for International Development National Conference<br>Human Rights in the 21st Century—People. Planet. Peace.</h3> <p>Opening Address<br>30 October 2018<br>UNSW, Sydney<br>by<br>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM<br>President, Australian Human Rights Commission*</p> <p>[Professor Croucher spoke to this paper]</p> -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
The immediate and long-term impact of trauma on children and young people: The implications of placement in detention centres for recovery from trauma and development of resilience