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Disability Rights
15 February 2024WebpageIncludeAbility Ambassadors
Offering leadership and advice to people with disability, as well as speaking to the benefits of employing people with disability -
17 February 2015Book page
Who we are
<p>Australia's peak Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous health bodies, health professional bodies and human rights organisations operate the Close the Gap Campaign. The Campaign's goal is to raise the health and life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to that of the non-Indigenous population within a generation: to close the gap by 2030.</p> -
17 February 2015Book page
Developments in policy
<p><em>If there is one message I want Governments to hear from this report it is: &nbsp;Do not press the reset button! ... If we continue to start over again the foundations previously laid will be pulled up time and again, never allowing enough time or energy to build the structure required to close the gap on Indigenous disadvantage.</em><sup><a href="#fn122" name="fnB122">[121]</a></sup></p> <p><strong>Brian Gleeson, the Coordinator General for Remote Indigenous Services </strong></p> -
Commission – General
14 December 2012SpeechARE WE CROSSING THE LINE?: FORUM ON NATIONAL SECURITY LAWS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
This paper deals with two aspects of the bill: the preventative detention orders and the new sedition offence. It does not touch on the problematic control orders. -
14 December 2012Book page
Section 12 - Other actions that could be taken by the Australian Government to protect LGBTI people in Australia - Addressing sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity discrimination: Consultation Report (2011)
The consultation received a number of suggestions about other ways in which the Australian Government could protect the human rights of LGBTI people in Australia. Many participants argued that while anti-discrimination legislation is an important step towards equality, it is essential that it is accompanied by other actions. Suggestions were often informed by personal experiences of discrimination. -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2006: Chapter 5: The Argyle Participation Agreement
The Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) and Argyle Management Plan Agreement (AMPA) together are arguably the most comprehensive arrangements ever made between a resource company and traditional owners negotiated in Australia. They are the result of one of the most comprehensive agreement processes undertaken with traditional owners. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012PublicationNative Title Report 2009
I have also used this opportunity to examine the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in light of other changes to policy and legislation made between 1 July 2008 and 30 June 2009 in accordance with section 46C(1)(a) of the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth). -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
4 April 2013Publication
Native Title Report 2009
Native Title Report 2009 Community Guide : Social Justice and Native Title Reports Contents The report overview: The challenges ahead Chapter 1: The state of land rights and native title policy in Australia in 2009 Chapter 2: Changing the culture of native title Chapter 3: Towards a just and equitable native title system Chapter 4: Indigenous land tenure reform Appendix 1: Native title determinations Appendix 2: Native title statistics. -
Sex Discrimination
14 July 2015WebpageContact Us
<p><strong>Would you like to leave feedback? <a href="/node/12939">Please complete our survey.</a></strong></p> <table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th valign="top"> <p><strong>Organisation</strong></p> </th> <th valign="top"> <p><strong>Role</strong></p> </th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p><strong>Australian Human Rights Commission</strong><br><br> <a href="https://www.humanrights.gov.au/">https://www.humanrights.gov.au/</a></p> <p>ph 1300 656 419<strong> </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> -
14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? - Summary Guide: International Law
As a sovereign country, Australia has a right to decide who is allowed to enter and stay in the country. However, with this right comes a set of legal responsibilities. -
17 January 2013Webpage
We all have a right to feel safe and respected.
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Violence, harassment and bullying are human rights issues that profoundly affect the lives of many people in Australia.</span></p> -
Rights and Freedoms
24 April 2015PublicationWar and Peace: The ANZAC spirit and human rights
<h2>Message from Professor Gillian Triggs</h2> <p><span alt="Professor Gillian Triggs" title="Gillian_Triggs_2015_.jpg" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;image_style&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="1038050a-3dec-4090-8e36-2816884e23cc" data-langcode="und" class="embedded-entity"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/Gillian_Triggs_2015_.jpg" alt="Professor Gillian Triggs" title="Gillian_Triggs_2015_.jpg"> </span> </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
Hastings: Finding Your Own Shape
I am delighted to have been invited to speak to you tonight on the Eve of International Women's Day, as so many of you are at the eve of being women yourselves, whether international or not. I can tell you, from my own experience, that being a woman kind of creeps up on you: one minute you're a girl, or an adolescent (whatever that may really be), and the next you are a woman! -
14 December 2012Book page
Annual Report 2002-2003: Chapter 5
Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM commenced duty as Acting Disability Discrimination Commissioner in December 2000 in addition to his duties as Human Rights Commissioner. In April 2003 the Attorney-General announced an extension of this acting position until 3 April 2004. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
Presentation to the NSW Subcommittee of the Australian Braille Authority
Have you ever stopped to think about all the things that we take for granted? When you're wandering through the breakfast cereal isle at the supermarket, for example, do you ever wonder whether Uncle Toby really was? If so, was he related to Sara Lee? Were Nana's apple pies originally made by Granny Smith? It's not so much that familiarity breeds contempt as that it lulls us into a state of mind where we no longer feel the need to question or even test our assumptions and presumptions. -
Legal
14 December 2012WebpageHuman Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 1996
1.1 The majority of amendments contained in the Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 1996 ("the Bill") draw on the work of a Review Committee established in September 1993 comprising members of the Attorney-General's Department, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission ("HREOC") and the Department of Finance. The purpose of the review was a broad ranging examination of the role and the various functions of HREOC. -
Children's Rights
6 April 2022Publication
Keeping kids safe and well: your voices
Children and young people are experts in their own lives, and their insights are critical for understanding how we can better support their safety and wellbeing. -
Sex Discrimination
16 October 2017Opinion piece
Not just Hollywood problem: 1 in 4 Australian women have been sexually harassed at work
<p>Over the past year, I have spoken with many women who have told me their personal accounts of being harassed in the workplace.</p> <p>I spoke to one hospital worker who was sexually harassed by a male patient, who indecently exposed himself to her. Instead of helping her, the woman's colleagues and manager assumed she was in a sexual relationship with him.</p> <p>Another young woman told me she was asked to wear a bikini while fruit picking so she could get paid a bonus.</p> -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
3 June 2014Publication
Declaration Dialogue Series
Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – Declaration Dialogue Series -
15 June 2015Book page
8 Legal and policy framework
<p>The following section outlines the relevant legal and policy framework, including the international human rights framework.</p> <h3 name="_Toc420660209"><a name="_Toc420660209"></a><a name="_Toc420677453"></a>8.1 International legal framework</h3> <p>The rights of older persons are protected by a number of key international human rights treaties.<sup><a href="#fn27" name="fnB27">[27]</a></sup> However, there is no specific United Nations convention on the rights of older persons.<sup><a href="#fn28" name="fnB28">[28]</a></sup></p>