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Rights and Freedoms
27 November 2013SpeechFreedom of Speech and Racial vilification: one man’s freedom ends where another’s starts
<p><strong>The Sydney Institute</strong></p> <p>Tuesday 26 November 2013</p> <p>6pm</p> <p>Venue: King &amp; Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney</p> <p><em>(Check against delivery)</em></p> -
Race Discrimination
10 April 2018Media ReleaseAustralian leadership falls short on cultural diversity
<p>Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane has revisited his <em>Leading for Change (2016)</em> report and found a persistent lack of cultural diversity among leaders in business, politics, government and universities.</p> <p>On 11 April 2018, the Commissioner launches new research that establishes Anglo-Celtic Australians and those of European background continue to dominate the ranks of Australian chief executives by as much as 97%.</p> -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012SpeechPresentation to Accessible Arts Workshop
George Bernard Shaw once said that the only alternative to torture in life is art. I'm not sure that you could my presentation this morning art, but I do hope it isn't torture. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
Providing Access to All
Some of us are women and some are men; some of us brought new names and accents in recent decades and some of us have Australian ancestry reaching back tens of thousands of years; and some of us have one or more disabilities. -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice and Native Title Reports 2006
In my role as Social Justice Commissioner I am required to produce two annual reports on Indigenous human rights issues – the Social Justice Report and the Native Title Report. The reports, which are tabled in federal Parliament, analyse the major changes and challenges in Indigenous affairs over the past year. They also include recommendations to government that promote and protect the rights of Indigenous Australians. This easy-to-read Community Guide offers a snapshot of some of the key issues in both reports. -
14 December 2012Book page
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Barnardos Australia is a family support and out of home care children's welfare agency operating services in New South Wales and ACT. We make this submission based on a number of detainee children and young people that we have provided services for within their own families, and as homeless adolescents. Furthermore, Barnardos has general experience of the impact of institutional care of children and young people, and children living with uncertainty and stress. We have proved specialist support services to refugee Indo-Chinese young people who have experienced detention in refugee camps. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012SpeechAddress to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry Annual Conference
A little over a month ago, I started as the new President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, ending my time as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. -
14 December 2012Book page
Let's talk about rights: A guide to help young people have their say about human rights in Australia (2009)
This guide has been produced by the Australian Human Rights Commission to help you participate in the Australian Government’s National Human Rights Consultation. -
Sex Discrimination
28 September 2015SpeechMcKinsey Asia Week
It’s a great pleasure to be speaking here today. Congratulations Dominic and Kevin and the conference leaders for giving priority to the issue of women’s leadership. As Natalie mentioned, I have the immense privilege of being Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner. This role has taken me from 200 metres under the sea in a submarine to the United Nations in New York, to camping out with aboriginal women in Northern Australia, to the mountains and valleys of Afghanistan, the White House, the Pentagon, NATO and the World Bank ALL in the same year. -
14 December 2012Book page
Bringing them Home - Rose story
We always lived by ourselves. Not that we thought we were better than any other Koori family. It's just that the white welfare, if they seen a group of Koori families together, they would step in and take their children away never to be seen again. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Speech
"AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS - INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE WIRE": DR SEV OZDOWSKI OAM (2004)
The first program I intend to watch will not be "The Block" but a program that is screening on Channel 4 in the U.K. and on Foxtel in this country. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
7 December 2016Opinion pieceListen to us: we know what we need
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Opinion piece
Seeing reconciliation through is an ongoing challenge but ultimately rewarding (2010)
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. -
14 December 2012Book page
Human Rights 21: Looking ahead
Over the past 21 years HREOC has helped to highlight, investigate and respond to a wide range of complex human rights issues in Australia. During this time there have been many positive changes. It is clear, however, that gaping holes still exist. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
7 July 2018Media Release
Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women's Voices) survey launched
<p>The Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO is inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls to take part in the Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) project, through a new online survey.</p> <p>The launch of the <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KQBKV2B">survey</a> for Indigenous women and girls coincides with the start of NAIDOC Week, with the theme Because of Her We Can.</p> -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Speech
Human Rights: Universal and Inalienable
I'm very pleased to be speaking to you today. I'm especially encouraged that so many young people have put aside a weekend to think about, and talk about, human rights. -
14 December 2012Book page
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
The Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia commends the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and Human Rights Commissioner Sev Ozdowski in particular, for instituting the Children in Immigration Detention Inquiry. -
14 December 2012Book page
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
The Commission would like to thank the children and young people who participated in the project and demonstrated great courage in allowing us to hear and tell their often painful and traumatic stories, in a hope that things would change for the better. -
24 April 2015Book page
3 Promotion and protection of human rights on the ground
<h2><a name="_Toc415220020"></a><a name="_Toc289596600"></a><a name="Heading109"></a><strong>3.1 Equality before the law and non-discrimination</strong></h2> <h3><a name="_Toc415220021"></a><a name="_Toc289596601"></a><a name="Heading110"></a><strong><em>(a) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples</em></strong></h3> <ol start="14"></ol> -
Rights and Freedoms
8 April 2015Speech
Launch of the Rights & Responsibilities Consultation 2014 Report
<p>Thank you for coming. It's a great pleasure to launch the <a href="https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/rights-and-freedoms/publications/rights-responsibilities-consultation-report">report from our Rights and Responsibilities Consultation</a>.</p> <p>Like my Commissioner colleagues, the role of Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner is to look at systemic public policy issues. No Commissioner investigates complaints from the public. That is the role of the President.</p>