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Commission – General
6 August 2018PublicationCorporate Plan 2018-2019
<p><span lang="EN">Our Corporate Plan is the road map that guides the Commission’s work for each financial year with a four year outlook. It shows how we implement our purpose and promote an Australian society where human rights are enjoyed by everyone, everywhere, everyday. There is no simple way to solve complex human rights issues.</span></p> -
Rights and Freedoms
20 January 2023Opinion pieceAustralia needs to deliver on our treaty promises
As with any agreement, there are certain requirements that OPCAT signatories need to fulfill, and Australia has been given longer than any other country to meet our OPCAT commitments. Today – 20 January 2023 – is our extended compliance deadline, and Australia has failed to deliver on our promises. -
Rights and Freedoms
3 March 2023Speech
Respect@Work – a focus on our profession
This paper considers the amendments to laws regarding workplace bullying and sexual harassment and the employer’s responsibility implementing recommendations of the Commission’s Respect@Work report (2020). -
Children's Rights
25 May 2017Opinion pieceWe need to do more to protect our kids online
<p>One unintended consequence of the explosion of digital technology is the proliferation of online child exploitation material – and increased opportunities for child sex offenders to connect with other offenders.</p> <p>This is the central finding of Anti-Slavery Australia’s Behind the Screen: Online Child Exploitation in Australia report. That report is the first comprehensive summary of Australia’s response to online child exploitation and identifies the critical need for decisive and urgent action.</p> -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
22 March 2019Publication
Close the Gap report – “Our Choices, Our Voices” (2019)
To address the widening life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non- Indigenous Australians, we have identified three priority areas that must be addressed. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
2 May 2018Speech
2018 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture, University of Western Australia
<h2>Acknowledgments</h2> <p>Good evening everyone. I would like to acknowledge the Noongar people the custodians of this land, and all their elders, past, present and emerging.</p> <p>Yaningi warangira ngindaji yuwa muwayi ingirranggu, Wurundjeri yani U. Balangarri wadjirragali jarra ningi – gamali ngindaji yau muwayi nyirrami ngarri thangani. Yaningi miya ngindaji Muwayi ingga winyira ngarragi thangani.&nbsp; Yathawarra, wilalawarra jalangurru ngarri guda.</p> -
Sex Discrimination
6 March 2018SpeechSex Discrimination Commissioner delivers 2018 Pamela Denoon Lecture
<p><strong>2018 Pamela Denoon Lecture, ANU</strong><br><strong>Monday 5th March 2018</strong></p> <p>Good evening.</p> <p>I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and paying my respects to their elders past, present and emerging.</p> <p>I would also like to acknowledge both the organisers of this event and the women who have presented the Pamela Denoon lecture in the past.</p> -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
9 February 2018Speech
Close the Gap 2018 Report launch
<p>I begin by paying my respects to the traditional custodians of this land, the Ngunnawal/Nagambri people, their elders past and present. I thank Paul House for your welcome and we thank you again for having us on your country today.<br><br>I pay my respects to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters in the room today, drawn from the many First Nations of this country. I acknowledge our non-Indigenous brothers and sisters that walk with us and continue to support our fight for a just and fairer Australia.<br></p> -
Sex Discrimination
12 September 2018Publication
Everyone’s business: Fourth national survey on sexual harassment in Australian workplaces (2018)
<h3>Commissioner’s foreword</h3> <p>I am pleased to present this report on the fourth National workplace sexual harassment survey, which outlines the findings of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s latest survey on the prevalence, nature and reporting of sexual harassment in Australia, with a focus on workplaces. This is the fourth such survey undertaken by the Commission since 2003.</p> -
Commission – General
14 July 2014Publication
Strategic Plan 2014-2018
<h2>Foreword</h2> <p>I am pleased to present the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Strategic Plan for 2014-18.</p> <p>The plan provides a roadmap that guides our key activities over the coming four year period.</p> <p>As an organisation we seek to be innovative and agile in how we continue to improve our operations and ensure maximum benefit for the Australian community.</p> <p>The plan meets the Commission’s new legal obligations as an independent corporate entity under the <em>Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013</em> (Cth).</p> -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
19 February 2018Speech
Close the Gap Campaign 2018 Parliamentary Breakfast
<h2>Acknowledgements</h2> <p>Rod. Thank you</p> <p>I begin by paying my respects to the traditional custodians of this land, the Ngunnawal/Nagambri people, their elders past and present. I thank Paul House for your welcome and we thank you again for having us on your country today.</p> <p>I pay my respects to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters in the room today, drawn from the many First Nations of this country. I acknowledge our non-Indigenous brothers and sisters that walk with us and continue to support our fight for a just and fairer Australia.</p> -
Legal
3 July 2018PublicationSummary - BE v Suncorp Group Ltd (2018)
The President of the Australian Human Rights Commission provided a report to the Attorney-General in relation to a complaint by Mr BE against Suncorp Group Ltd. -
Legal
6 April 2018Submission
Migration Amendment (Clarification of Jurisdiction) Bill 2018
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Sex Discrimination
12 September 2018Speech
National Press Club: Everyone's Business: 2018 Sexual Harassment Survey
<h3><strong>Kate Jenkins</strong></h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><em>CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY</em></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>I acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Ngunnawal people, and pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging.</p> <h3><strong>Change takes time</strong></h3> <p>In my role as Sex Discrimination Commissioner, many people tell me to be patient. They tell me that change takes time and generational change will eliminate sexual harassment. The next generation will not tolerate the sexism of the past.</p> -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
3 September 2019Speech
'Our women's voices. Our children's future' SNAICC 2019 National Conference
<p style="margin-top:16px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif">Introduction in Bunuba </span></b></span></span></span></p> -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
8 May 2019Media Release
Our Health, Our Voice, Our Choice
<p>The Close the Gap Campaign has welcomed the Prime Minister’s commitment to work in genuine partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to address the inequality that continues to exist in life expectancy and other outcomes.</p> <p>The Prime Minister Scott Morrison has tabled the Government’s Closing the Gap Report and restated the government’s commitment to work collaboratively in a formal partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.</p> -
Legal
12 September 2018Submission
Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) draft Bill 2018
<h2>1. Executive summary</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> -
Sex Discrimination
28 January 2020Publication
Respect@Work: Sexual Harassment National Inquiry Report (2020)
Workplace sexual harassment is prevalent and pervasive: it occurs in every industry, in every location and at every level, in Australian workplaces. -
Sex Discrimination
8 April 2021Media Release
Commission welcomes response to Respect@Work Report
<p>The Australian Human Rights Commission welcomes the considered and constructive response to the 55 recommendations made in its 2020&nbsp;<a href="https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/sex-discrimination/publications/respectwork-sexual-harassment-national-inquiry-report-2020?_ga=2.18078718.631756180.1617833858-2138698214.1613454369" target="_blank">Respect@Work&nbsp;Report on the National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces</a>.</p> -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
9 August 2019Speech
Reflections: Our Health, Our Way conference
<p><em>Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO addressed the AMSANT Our Health Our Way Conference in the Alice Springs on August 7. The topic was 'Personal Reflection'. </em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Jalangurru maninga balanggarri. Yaningi yatharra ngindaji yuwa muwayi ingirranggu Arrente yani U.</p> <p>I acknowledge the Arrente people, and all of you and your families and elders past, present and emerging.</p> <p>I want to give a special acknowledgment to all of my Kimberley mob here tonight.</p>