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Disability Rights
14 December 2012SpeechLaunch: Not for Service
In such company my role as Human Rights Commissioner is not to speak as an expert on mental health, but to emphasise the human rights dimensions of the way that we as a nation respond to mental health issues. -
31 July 2017Book page
Commissioner's Foreword
<h2>Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins</h2> -
Human Resources18 March 2015Webpage
Pathways
Explore jobs at the Commission, including policy, HR, communications, finance, IT, legal, investigation and conciliation services and office admin roles. -
Legal
14 December 2012WebpageAustralia the Healthiest Country by 2020
The Commission would like to commend the government on its commitment to achieving a healthier nation by 2020, and for its actions in this area including COAG reforms to state/territory health funding agreements. -
14 December 2012Book page
Who spoke out at the time?
The policies and practices of separation and removal as described in the report were never universally approved as sometimes believed. They were in fact implemented in the face of clear and unequivocal warnings about the potentially disastrous and tragic consequences that may flow. -
Sex Discrimination
29 January 2013WebpageSubmissions for Phase Two: Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force
<p>Written submissions sought in Phase Two related to the following aspects of the project <a href="https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/sex-discrimination/projects/review-treatment-women-australian-defence-force?_ga=2.56125538.816620894.1502666107-1041140422.1502666107">Terms of Reference</a>:</p> <ul> <li> <p class="float-left">The effectiveness of cultural change strategies recommended by the Chief of the Defence Force Women’s Reference Group in the Women’s Action Plan including the implementation of these strategies across the Australian Defence Force</p></li></ul> -
Rights and Freedoms
1 May 2013WebpageRight to humane treatment in detention
Learn how under human rights law, all Australians have the right to humane treatment while in detention and that adults and children must be separated. -
Human Resources7 November 2018Webpage
Life at the Commission
Learn about working at the Human Rights Commission, including current job opportunities, workplace culture and diversity, and pathways to employment. -
Disability Rights
22 March 2024Webpage
The IncludeAbility Employer Network - Medibank
Learn how Network Member Medibank recognises that all employees are different, and these differences benefit employees, customers, shareholders and the community. -
Disability Rights
21 March 2024Webpage
The IncludeAbility Employer Network - The ABC
IncludeAbility Employer Network member ABC knows that ensuring greater diversity and inclusion is not only the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do. -
Disability Rights
21 March 2024Webpage
The IncludeAbility Employer Network - ANZ Bank
IncludeAbility Employer Network member ANZ believes in in the inherent strength of a vibrant, diverse and inclusive workplace. -
Disability Rights
21 March 2024Webpage
The IncludeAbility Employer Network - Australia Post
IncludeAbility Employer Network member Australia Post believea a diverse and inclusive workplace encourages better connections within communities. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012SpeechSite navigation
It is now more than 5 years since the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission completed its national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families with the publication of Bringing them home. -
Rights and Freedoms
10 October 2014Opinion piece
Even in pursuit of valid goals, let's stop sacrificing principles and rights
In pursuit of legitimately tackling isolated criminal behaviour, Parliaments are reversing the basic principle of liberal democracy by criminalising the exercise of human rights and prescribing lawful activity. -
LGBTIQ+
17 September 2015Opinion pieceI want to hold your hand: LGBTI people have some surprisingly modest aspirations
<p>Visibility remains one of the greatest challenges in tackling the legacy of state-sanctioned discrimination against people on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex status.</p> <p>In the past 30 years we’ve made great strides in ensuring people are treated equally before the law and government simply because of who they are.</p> <p>Led by John Gorton, the commonwealth parliament moved a motion to decriminalise homosexual acts in the mid-1970s.</p> -
Complaint Information Service14 December 2012Webpage
Information for people and organisations responding to complaints - Unlawful Discrimination
Explore resources about responding to unlawful discrimination complaints, including conciliation and what happens if the complaint is not resolved. -
14 December 2012Book page
HRC Report No. 13
HRC Report No. 13 Copyright © Commonwealth of Australia 2001 Copying is permissible with acknowledgment of the authorship of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 2001. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
PROMOTING THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: TOWARDS A NEW UN CONVENTION
Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM Human Rights Commissioner and Disability Discrimination Commissioner Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, Australia -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Submission: Sex Discrimination Amendment Bill (No 1) 2000 (Cth)
1.1 The amendments effected by the Sex Discrimination Amendment Bill (No 1) 2000 (Cth) ("the Amendment Bill") go to the core of the guarantee of non discrimination contained in the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) ("the SDA"). 1.2 The provisions of the Amendment Bill are of great concern to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission ("the Commission") and the Sex Discrimination Commissioner ("the Commissioner") for a number of reasons outlined below. -
Legal
14 December 2012Speech
Dignity, Fairness and Good Government: The Role of a Human Rights Act - Lord Bingham
It would clearly test to destruction the tolerance of the ordinary red-blooded Australian to have a Pom getting off the plane from London and telling them how to run their country. So I shall not presume to say how the current human rights debate in this country should be resolved. But perhaps I may contribute some thoughts, prompted by our own experience in the United Kingdom, acknowledging as I do so that the Australian context, while in some ways similar, is in others significantly different.