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26 May 2014Speech
Changing Hearts, Changing Minds
We all share a responsibility to lead cultural change for inclusion of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex. Building on the previous work of the Commission, I’ll be using my term as Human Rights Commissioner to ensure these issues are given national attention. It was an honour to be a keynote speaker at the Human Rights Forum of the Asia Pacific Outgames in Darwin. -
Legal14 December 2012Speech
Human Rights and Climate Change: A Tragedy in the Making - Hon John von Doussa QC
I am very pleased to be here talking about Human Rights and Climate Change in the first of HREOC’s seminar series celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the ‘Declaration’).1 -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2010:Chapter 2: ‘The basis for a strengthened partnership’: Reforms related to agreement-making
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, agreement-making can be an expression of free, prior and informed consent and the beginning of cooperative relationships with governments and other parties. -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2009: Chapter 1
The reporting period for this Report is 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009. Throughout this period, there was significantly more activity in native title law and policy than I witnessed in the first five years of my term as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner. -
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> -
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>