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Business and Human Rights
30 November 2022SpeechExecutive discretion in a time of COVID-19
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have required very quick action by governments. But those responses have also involved significant limitations on people’s rights and freedoms, especially freedom of movement, and implemented through executive power often with limited parliamentary involvement. -
Rights and Freedoms
17 January 2019SpeechHuman rights in the 21st century
<h2>Human rights in the 21st century—Reflections on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights</h2> <h3>Australian Council for International Development National Conference<br>Human Rights in the 21st Century—People. Planet. Peace.</h3> <p>Opening Address<br>30 October 2018<br>UNSW, Sydney<br>by<br>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM<br>President, Australian Human Rights Commission*</p> <p>[Professor Croucher spoke to this paper]</p> -
Commission – General
14 March 2024SpeechPerspectives on Fairness
<h2>ANZOA meeting&nbsp;</h2><h3>Meeting of the Minds&nbsp;</h3><p><strong>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>President, Australian Human Rights Commission&nbsp;</strong></p><h3>Acknowledgement&nbsp;</h3><p>I would like to begin my presentation by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land where I am delivering my presentation today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay my respects to the elders, past, present and emerging.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2011: Chapter 2: Lateral violence in native title: our relationships over lands, territories and resources
A key priority throughout my five year term as Social Justice Commissioner is to strengthen and rebuild relationships within our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. -
Rights and Freedoms
13 May 2022Speech
Whither human rights and freedoms protections in Australia?
As I reflect on the past two years, it is clear that the pandemic has brought a renewed national focus on the importance of centralising considering rights and freedoms during times of crisis — a greater ‘rights consciousness’. -
Commission – General
22 March 2024Speech
Women’s Club – Foundation Day Club Lunch
<p><strong>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM</strong>&nbsp;</p><h2>Introduction</h2><p>Thank you Danielle Asciak, for inviting me here today.&nbsp;</p><p>Let me begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation and pay my respect to Elders, past, present and emerging, and also to acknowledge any Indigenous guests attending today.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> -
8 December 2020Book page
Part 4: Healthy and engaged lives
Learn how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls face challenges with their health, wellbeing and education and how this is being addressed. -
Commission – General
14 March 2024Speech
‘Bringing rights home—mapping an agenda on human rights in Australia
<h2>‘Bringing rights home—mapping an agenda on promoting, protecting and fulfilling human rights in Australia</h2><h3>Michael Kirby Justice Oration 2021</h3><p><strong>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM</strong></p><p><strong>President, Australian Human Rights Commission</strong></p><p><em>The annual Kirby orations pay tribute to Michael Kirby’s commitment to social justice and human rights and his relationship as friend, colleague and mentor to Victoria University’s College of Law &amp; Justice.</em></p> -
Age Discrimination
8 August 2023SpeechBuilding a better cultural inheritance for an ageing Australia
<h4><strong>Hon Dr Kay Patterson AO</strong></h4> <h4><strong>Age Discrimination Commissioner</strong></h4> <h2><strong>Keynote Address to National Press Club of Australia, Canberra</strong></h2> <h4><strong>Wednesday, 28 June, 2023</strong></h4> <p>CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY</p> <h4><strong>Welcome</strong></h4> <p>Thank you Andrew Tillett <em>(National Press Club Vice President)</em> for your kind introduction. I am sometimes introduced incorrectly, but maybe more accurately, as the Ageing Discrimination Commissioner.&nbsp;</p> -
Rights and Freedoms
3 March 2023Speech
Promoting and protecting human rights in Australia
<h2>The Australian Human Rights Commission: promoting and protecting human rights in Australia&nbsp;</h2><p><strong>St Andrew’s College, University of Sydney, 14 July 2022</strong></p><p>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM FAAL</p> -
Legal
22 March 2024SpeechProbate and Lunatics: A Curious Cameo of Supreme Court History
<h3>ANZOA meeting</h3><h3>Perspectives on Fairness Meeting of the Minds</h3><p><strong>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM</strong></p><p><strong>President, Australian Human Rights Commission</strong></p><h3>Acknowledgment</h3><p>I would like to begin my presentation by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land where I am delivering my presentation today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay my respects to the elders, past, present and emerging.&nbsp;</p> -
Rights and Freedoms
3 March 2023Speech
Human Rights in the time of Covid
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic as a public health emergency tested national readiness in a federal system to contain the spread of the disease effectively and required very quick action by governments. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
9 September 2019SpeechKimberley Women Rangers Camp keynote speech
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif">Jalangurru maningarri, ngarragi yani. Wadi jalangurru yathanggirragi. – larger Bunuba.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> -
Rights and Freedoms
9 August 2019Speech
Human Rights are not a foreign language
<h2>Human Rights are not a foreign language—reflections on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights</h2><p>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM&nbsp;<br>President, Australian Human Rights Commission<a href="#fn1"><sup>[∗]</sup></a>&nbsp;<br>University of Adelaide Faculty of Law&nbsp;<br>Tuesday 4 September 2018</p> -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
17 January 2019Opinion piece
Turning the tide on Indigenous children in out of home care
<p>Child protection intervention in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families across the country is at crisis point.</p> <p>Women are telling me it’s like another stolen generation and as I travel across Australia hearing their stories, it certainly does feel that way.</p> <p>As the 2018 Family Matters report reveals, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children make up just over 36 per cent of all children living in out-of-home care across the country.</p> <p>Our children are 10.1 times more likely to be taken away from their families than other Australian children.</p> -
14 December 2012Book page
Chapter 2: Constitutional reform: Creating a nation for all of us - Social Justice Report 2010
A century ago, the Australian people engaged in a debate about creating a nation. They held meetings...They wrote articles and letters in newspapers. Many views were canvassed and voices were heard. The separate colonies, having divided up the land between them, discussed ways of sharing powers in order to achieve a vision of a united Australia. The result was the Australian Constitution, establishing the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 2001: Chapter 2: Mutual obligation, welfare reform and Indigenous participation: a human rights perspective
In recent years a mutual obligation approach has been adopted to reform public policy on welfare and employment issues. There has been much discussion about the applicability of this approach within an Indigenous policy context. It is seen by many as consistent with Indigenous cultural values such as reciprocity and an emphasis on community, as well as suggesting an antidote to the damage caused by intergenerational poverty, of which long-term welfare dependency and a crippling short-term local cash economy are often features. -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 2001: Chapter 6: Reconciliation – National progress one year on
In its final recommendations, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation proposed that there be a legislative requirement for the Social Justice Commissioner to monitor progress towards reconciliation on an annual basis. In the Social Justice Report 2000 it was noted that while legislative amendment to this end was desirable, this task could be undertaken under my existing functions. Accordingly, I undertook to provide an annual evaluation of progress towards reconciliation as part of the social justice report. -
14 December 2012Book page
Annual Report 2001-2002: Appendix 6
The Commission’s Performance Management Scheme provides a framework to manage and develop our staff to achieve our corporate objectives. There have been two cycles completed since its implementation on 1 July 1999. The scheme provides regular and formal assessment of an employee’s work performance and allows for access to training and skill development. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Speech
Asia Pacific Forum meeting: Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM (2001)
Although the first Human Rights Commission was established by federal legislation in 1981, ICESCR was not added to its mandate (unlike the ICCPR). The omission was repeated when the new (current) Commission was established in 1986.