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<p><a href="/node/8706">Back to rights and freedoms: right by right</a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p><span alt="hr26.jpg" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{"image_style":"","image_link":""}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="dafd80e4-6b26-4e2c-8ec5-2340193f9e0e" title="hr26.jpg" data-langcode="und" class="embedded-entity"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/hr26.jpg" alt="hr26.jpg" title="hr26.jpg"> </span> </p>

<p> </p> <p> </p> <p class="wg-content-icon"><img alt="alt text" src="//wiyiyaniuthangani.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/TSI-icon.png"></p> <p> </p> <p>The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, June Oscar invites all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls (12 – 17 years) to join the Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) conversation.</p>

<p> </p> <h2><strong>Sponsorship opportunities are available. </strong></h2> <p><span class="file media-disabled-element file-default" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%223020%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D"><img alt class="file-icon" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" title="application/pdf"> <a href="/sites/default/files/hra-sponsorship-prospectus-2013.pdf">Download the invitation to sponsor document</a></span></p> <p>For more information contact our team on <a href="mailto:hrawards@humanrights.gov.au">hrawards@humanrights.gov.au</a>.</p>

The Commission is able to grant temporary exemptions from some parts of the Sex Discrimination Act, the Disability Discrimination Act and the Age Discrimination Act.

<p><strong>Date:</strong></p> <p>Tuesday 30 June 2015</p> <p><br><strong>Area of Work:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/legal">Legal</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Committees submitted to:</strong></p> <p>Department of Immigration and Border Protection call for submissions in its discussion paper entitled “Australian Citizenship – your right, your responsibility.”</p>

<h2>Ms Robynne Quiggin</h2> <h3>Former Deputy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner 2016 - 2017</h3> <div class="card"> <div class="card-section"> <div class="grid-x grid-padding-x"> <div class="cell medium-shrink"><img alt="Robynne Quiggin" hspace="10" src="/sites/default/files/Robynne-Quiggin-Headshot-4-Photo-by-Tiffany-Parker_200x300.jpg" vspace="10"></div> <div class="cell medium-auto"> <p>Robynne Quiggin was the Deputy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner from 1 August 2016 to 9 February 2017.</p></div></div></div></div>

The Commission seeks to promote and protect human rights through submissions to parliamentary inquiries, government departments and law reform bodies.

The Commission seeks to promote and protect human rights through submissions to parliamentary inquiries, government departments and law reform bodies.