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14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 2004 : SUMMARY SHEET FIVE
Indigenous health - Programs for addressing Indigenous health reveal the problem of a lack of implementation of human rights. The National Aboriginal Health Strategy (1989) and the current National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health have been agreed by the Commonwealth with States and Territories. Both documents identify, from a human rights perspective, the key issues that must be addressed to improve Indigenous health and yet they have made very little difference to the problem (pp5-6). -
14 December 2012Book page
Close the Gap - National Indigenous Health Equality Targets
Our challenge for the future is to embrace a new partnership between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The core of this partnership for the future is closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians on life expectancy, educational achievement and employment opportunities. -
Legal
28 March 2018Media ReleasePathways to Justice - ALRC report welcomed by Commissioner June Oscar AO
<p>The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO has urged Federal, State and Territory governments to genuinely consider the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report into the over-representation of Indigenous people in custody.<br> <br> The report, tabled in Federal Parliament today, contains 35 recommendations to address community safety and imprisonment rates amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.</p> -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
REJECTION OF APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION: Lourdes Hill College
By this instrument, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (‘the Commission’) declines to grant to the Lourdes Hill College (‘the College’) a temporary exemption pursuant to s 44(1) of the Sex Discrimination Act (Cth) 1984 (‘the SDA’). -
28 November 2014Book page
Lessons
Teachers can access a series of lesson plans that were created by the Commission to help students build an understanding of human rights issues -
14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? - Summary Guide: Safety in Detention Centres
Throughout the course of the Inquiry, a number of serious disturbances occurred in immigration detention centres, including riots, fires, hunger strikes, protests, self-harm and suicide attempts. -
Children's Rights
22 August 2013SpeechChildren’s rights: everyone, everywhere everyday
<h2><br><a name="Heading13"></a><a name="Heading14"></a></h2> <h4><br><a name="Heading15"></a><a name="Heading16"></a><strong>Megan Mitchell</strong><br><a name="Heading17"></a><strong>National Children’s Commissioner</strong><br><a name="Heading18"></a><strong>Australian Human Rights Commission</strong></h4> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Castan Centre Human Rights Law Conference</strong><br><strong>Human Rights 2013</strong><br><strong>The Edge, Federation Square</strong><br><strong>Corner of Swanston and Flinders Streets, Melbourne </strong><br><strong>Friday 26 July 2013</strong></p> -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Opinion pieceSmart and perceptive? Don't bank on it. (2011)
The following opinion pieces have been published by the President and Commissioners. Reproduction of the opinion pieces must include reference to where the opinion piece was originally published. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
National Inquiry into Disability and Employment: Roundtable 1
I would like to welcome you all to the first official event of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's National Inquiry into Disability and Employment since its launch on 4 March. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012WebpageMick Gooda: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
Mick Gooda is the Commission's former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner. He was a commissioner from early 2010 to August 2016. -
14 December 2012Book page
Annual Report 1999-2000: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Under section 46C(1)(a) of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cth), the Social Justice Commissioner is required annually to submit a report to the Attorney-General on the exercise and enjoyment of human rights by Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders (the Social Justice Report). -
14 December 2012Book page
A Time to Value - Media Pack
Encouraging and providing assistance for parents to raise their children benefits all of us. Paid maternity leave is a mechanism which provides assistance to families so that they may better combine work and family responsibilities, to the benefit of the children, the workplace and the community. It may also have flow-on benefits for the fertility rate, community life and social cohesion. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
In regard to the payment of $1 an hour. It's true there was no actual payment in cash terms but the equivalent rate of one point to one dollar allowed the detainees to purchase goods according to the number of points they had gained. I think it is a mere technicality and that, argued in a court of law, they were being paid for their assistance. The perception anyway from the detainees and ourselves was that they were being paid at the rate of $1 an hour. In one case that I know, a detainee teacher bought more than his points value in dollar terms. In his account he had some of his own money. -
Commission – General
9 May 2019Webpage
Accessibility
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." - Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Webpage
Disability Discrimination Commissioner
Graeme Innes was Australia's Disability Discrimination Commissioner from 2005 - July 2014 . During that time he has also served as Australia's Human Rights Commissioner for three and a half years and as Race Discrimination Commissioner for two years. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
The National Federation of Organisations Representing Parents of Non-government School Students National Secretariat PO Box 1894 North Sydney NSW 2059 Telephone: (02) 9955 7091 Fax (02) 9923 2723 Email:director@austparents.edu.au -
14 December 2012Book page
Young people in the workplace: Activity sheet - rightsED
The customer comes first; if the customers are unhappy, they will not return. My business will go broke, and we will lose our jobs. So we have to keep the customers happy. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
8 July 2013Publication
Community Guide: UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Declaration is the most comprehensive tool we have available to advance the rights of Indigenous peoples. -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2005: Chapter 1: Background the origin of land rights and barriers to economic development through native title
The Australian Government has signalled that economic development is a central focus for the Indigenous Affairs portfolio this term. The Ministerial Taskforce on Indigenous Affairs, created in May 2004 to drive and coordinate the federal Government’s Indigenous policies,1 identified as one of three key areas2 for priority action: -
Rights and Freedoms
10 November 2017Media ReleaseFinalists announced – Individual Community Award
<p>Five outstanding Australians have been named as finalists for the 2017 Tony Fitzgerald Memorial Community Individual Award.</p> <p>“There are so many individuals working tirelessly to improve human rights in our communities,” said President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher.</p> <p>“This Award is a chance for impressive Australians to be recognised for their dedication to human rights and it particularly highlights the profound impact that one person can have on an entire community,” she said.</p>