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<h2>Affinity Intercultural Foundation, NSW Parliament House</h2> <h3>13th Friendship and Dialogue Iftar Dinner</h3> <p>Wednesday 13 April 2022</p> <p>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM </p> <p><em>As-salamu alaykum: </em>may peace be upon you.</p> <h2>Acknowledgements</h2> <p>Our Parliamentary hosts, distinguished guests, of whom there are indeed many, friends.</p>

<p><strong>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM FAAL FRSA FACLM(Hon) delivered this speech at The Annual Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Conference on 21 July 2023. </strong></p>

Disability Discrimination Commissioner Dr Ben Gauntlett's keynote speech at the ACCC International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN) Conference Dinner in 2023.

<p><strong>Australian Human Rights Commission conference</strong></p> <p><strong>Free and Equal: An Australian Conversation on Human Rights</strong></p> <p><strong>Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights</strong></p> <p>8 October 2019</p> <p> </p> <p>President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Rosalind Croucher and fellow Commissioners</p> <p>Mr Les Malezer, Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues,</p> <p>Members of Parliament and Government representatives</p> <p>Colleagues and friends,</p>

<h2>Sandy Duncanson Memorial Lecture</h2><h3>Housing and human rights – rights where it matters</h3><p>Hobart, 11 October 2022</p><p><em>Abstract</em></p>

<p><strong>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM</strong></p><p>Good evening. My name is Rosalind Croucher and I am the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission. I would like to pay my respects to the Gadigal people of the Eora nation whose lands we are meeting on today and on whose lands our offices of the Australian Human Rights Commission reside as well. I’d like to acknowledge their elders past and present and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who may be joining us here today—especially women.</p>

1. " ... there are 106,000 poor single women over 65 as compared with 40,000 men in this group in 2000" Senate Community Affairs References Committee A Hand up not a hand out: Renewing the fight against poverty: Report on poverty and financial hardship, Commonwealth of Australia 2004, p211. 2. C Brown- Conference Paper- Retirement Income Modeling Task Force- Joint project Treasury , Dept Finance and Dept Social Security, 1997 3. www.gradsonline.edu.au:- 2003 Graduate Destination Survey of graduates who completed their courses in 2002. 4.

<p><strong>Speech by National Children's Commissioner Anne Hollonds to the Parliamentary Friends of Early Childhood</strong></p> <p>Thanks for this opportunity to share some reflections on my vision for early childhood policy.</p> <p>I would first like to acknowledge the traditional owners – Ngunnawal and Ngambri people – and pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging.</p> <p>My observations this morning will draw on a growing tower of evidence about child development, human capability, and the economic value of investing early to prevent problems and costs escalating.</p>

<h2>Law Week Breakfast</h2><h3>Law Society of Western Australia</h3><p>Perth, 13 May 2019</p><p><strong>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM, President, Australian Human Rights Commission</strong></p><h2>Acknowledgements</h2><p>Thanks to Greg McIntyre SC, President of the Law Society of Western Australia, for the wonderful invitation to speak at the opening of Law Week in Perth.  </p>

<p><em>14 December 2018</em></p> <p><em>Westin Hotel, Sydney</em></p> <p><em>(Check against delivery)</em></p> <p>[Thank you for your warm welcome to country]</p> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>I begin by paying my respects to the Gadigal people of the Eora nation— to their elders, past and present, and to the future generations; and I particularly acknowledge all Indigenous guests joining us here today.</p>

<h2>OPAN National Older Persons Reference Group</h2> <p><strong>Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM FAAL FRSA FACLM(Hon)</strong></p> <h2>Abstract</h2> <p> The presentation will focus on the Commission’s proposed model for a Human Rights Act in Australia and how it may support the rights of older people. </p> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>[Thank you to organisers….]</p>

<p><strong>Beijing Platform for Action at 25: Progress, Retreat and the Future of Women's Rights<br><br> Opening Address<br><br> Thursday 3 December, 10:00 am<br><br> Kate Jenkins, Sex Discrimination Commissioner</strong><br><br> <br><br> Hello everyone. My name is Kate Jenkins, and I have had the honour of serving as Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner for the past four years.</p> <p>I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional lands of our nation’s first people. I am presenting today from the lands of the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation.</p>