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14 December 2012WebpagePost Implementation Review of the Fair Work Act 2009
We have found that employees in the SACS industry are predominantly women and are generally remunerated at a level below that of employees of state and local governments who perform similar work. [6] -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
18 March 2022Opinion pieceWe will not sit down or stand to the side
<p><strong>OPINION</strong></p> <p>There are moments in history where the forces of what has come before and the energy of the present reconfigure the social and political landscape. In Australia and around the globe, reckoning with misogyny and the interrelated issues of systemic racism and patriarchal destruction has been centuries in the making.</p> -
Commission – General
14 December 2012SpeechStrategies to address discrimination to build a more inclusive country
I would like to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora people, the traditional owners of the land on which we meet today, and pay my respects to their elders. -
Children's Rights
12 November 2014SpeechProtected and safe: a child’s right, our responsibility
<h3>Megan Mitchell<br>National Children’s Commissioner</h3> <h3>National Child Protection Week<br>Gala Dinner – Alice Springs<br>Thursday 11 September<br>&nbsp;</h3> <p><strong>Introduction</strong></p> -
14 April 2015Book page
1 Social justice - Year in review
<ul> <li><a href="#Heading263">1.1 Introduction </a></li> <li><a href="#Heading282">1.2 Machinery of Government changes </a></li> <li><a href="#Heading323">1.3 The 2014 Budget</a></li> <li><a href="#Heading504">1.4 Leadership, representation and engagement</a></li> <li><a href="#Heading568">1.5 Constitutional recognition</a></li> <li><a href="#Heading641">1.6 Indigenous Jobs and Training Review</a></li> <li><a href="#Heading702">1.7 Closing the Gap</a></li> <li><a href="#Heading777">1.8 Stolen Generations </a></li> <li><a href="#Heading807">1.9 International developments</a></li></ul> -
Race Discrimination
6 October 2023Opinion pieceWhatever the voice vote’s result, Australia has a racism problem we must tackle
Read Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan's op-ed, published in The Guardian Australia. "Australia will, fundamentally, be changed on 14 October. However the cards fall in the voice referendum, one thing is for sure: our next urgent national priority is tackling racism." -
Sex Discrimination
27 March 2015SpeechSydney Girls High School – Annual Presentation Day
It is indeed a privilege to be invited to speak to you all at such an important time in many of your lives. In my job I get the opportunity to see and be with people of all walks of life, across all parts of Australia. And it is wonderful to be able to include today in my experiences – it is giving the chance to be with an incredibly talented group of young women, who I hope to see in leadership and decision-making positions across Australia in the future – it is incredibly inspiring. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012SpeechDIALOGUE AUSTRALASIA NETWORK NATIONAL CONFERENCE
I would like to open today by reading you part of an e-mail that a work colleague of mine received recently from a young Australian woman in her early twenties, who recently completed her Bachelor of Communications degree from UTS in Sydney. As it happens she also holds Polish citizenship and is currently visiting her grandparents in Warsaw. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Speech
ARE WE CROSSING THE LINE?: FORUM ON NATIONAL SECURITY LAWS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
This paper deals with two aspects of the bill: the preventative detention orders and the new sedition offence. It does not touch on the problematic control orders. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012WebpageDISABILITY DISCRIMINATION BILL 1992: Second Reading
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER (Hon. G.G.D. Scholes)--I understand that it is the wish of the House to debate the Disability Discrimination Bill concurrently with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Legislation Amendment Bill. There being no objection, the Chair will allow that course to be followed. -
Sex Discrimination
8 December 2022Speech
National Press Club Address: Changing Laws, Changing Behaviours, Changing Lives
Speech by Australia's National Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins, to the National Press Club on 30 November, 2022. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
5 December 2017Speech
Australian Indigenous Governance Institute Indigenous Women in Governance Masterclass
<h2>‘I have the right, and so do you: The power of Indigenous women in governance’</h2> <h3>[Introduction in Bunuba]</h3> <p>Jalangurru lanygu wiyi yani gurama yani.</p> <p>I want to pay my respects to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land we meet on today, and to their elders both past and present.</p> <p>My sincere condolences to family, countrymen, friends and colleagues as we have heard of the passing of one of our Indigenous leaders.</p> -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
16 March 2018Speech
United Nations CSW62 Side Event : Wiyi Yani U Thangani Project
<p><span style="font-size: 13.008px;">Thank you…</span></p> <p>[Play video of Magnolia and then begin slide show of women’s photos]&nbsp;</p> <p><iframe title="Magnolia Maymuru - Ambassador for Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women's Voices) - extended" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/847LUnqjkIc?rel=0" width="560"></iframe></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>I want to acknowledge all of the indigenous people here today, from across the many nations of the United States and from the many countries and lands across this earth.</p> -
Technology and Human Rights
16 December 2019Media ReleaseCommission calls for ethical AI
Learn more about how Australians need ethical AI which is designed and deployed to protect human rights. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
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On 14 May 2002 the Attorney-General tabled the Social Justice Report 2001, my annual review of the exercise of human rights by Indigenous Australians, and the Native Title Report 2001, my annual review of native title developments, in federal Parliament. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australias
“I have had many experiences of discrimination like many of our community, and probably because of our appearance. What they do is for e.g. I was standing beside the road and was given the finger. Or when I enter the store, some people look at me like a stranger and make me feel uncomfortable, and some even say ‘terrorist’.” -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
WORK AND FAMILY TEST CASE
The supporting material listed below is now available from HREOC at the request of the AIRC or the parties. It is intended that relevant parts of this material will be provided with final submissions. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Webpage
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - Human rights at your fingertips - Human rights at your fingertips
Considering that the Charter of the United Nations is based on the principles of the dignity and equality inherent in all human beings, and that all Member States have pledged themselves to take joint and separate action, in co-operation with the Organization, for the achievement of one of the purposes of the United Nations which is to promote and encourage universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion, -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
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Today's launch here in Sydney is part of a national program of launches that I have been undertaking in recent weeks in order to bring issues of human rights significance raised by my latest social justice and native title reports to the attention of Indigenous and other interested communities and organisations. So far, launches have been held in Melbourne, Perth and Broome, with launches in the next week in Alice Springs and Adelaide; to be followed by Brisbane and Darwin after that. -
14 December 2012Book page
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Special thanks goes to Maritza Manojlovic, Michele Nardelli and Rosemary Thompson who skilfully helped me to elaborate the arguments of the paper. To the Middle Eastern new arrivals that warmly welcomed me into their lives, ready to reveal their deepest concerns in the belief that they would be taken seriously, I say thank you. My greatest thanks goes to Mohammed Amirghiasvand for inspiring me to continue working in this area.