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Commission – General9 December 2013Webpage
2013 Human Rights Medal and Awards Winners
<div class="image-wrapper" style="position: relative; margin-bottom: 24px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><img alt="Human Rights Medal 2013 Finalists" src="/sites/default/files/clare-condon.jpg"><br><div class="caption-bottom" style="position: absolute; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; width: 720px !important; background-color: black; color: white; padding: 10px; opacity: 0.8; line-height:12px !important">Human Rights Medal 2013 winner Sister Clare Condon</div></div><h2>Human Rights Medal</h2><p><strong>Sister Clare Condon</strong></p> -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2007: Chapter 6
‘CATSI’ is an acronym for the Commonwealth’s Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth), which came into effect on 1 July 2007. The Act ‘primarily provides for the incorporation and regulation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations’. It replaces the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976 (Cth) (the ACA Act). -
31 January 2013Webpage
1998 Human Rights Medal and Awards Winners
<p style="margin-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">The 1998 Medal and Awards presentation ceremony was held on 10 December 1998 at the conclusion of the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Conference -&nbsp;<em>Human Rights, Human Values: What do we think now?</em>&nbsp;The luncheon was held at the Dockside Conference Centre, Darling Harbour in Sydney. Special guest was the Governor-General, Sir William Deane and John Doyle was the MC.</p> -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Webpage
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Report 2005
I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the country on which we speak other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the room, representatives of the Productivity Commission, Reconciliation Australia and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission invited guests and other speakers. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Speech
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I would like to begin by acknowledging the Nganawal people, the traditional owners of the land where we meet today and to pay my respects to their elders. I would also like to thank the Australian Medical Students Association and Shayne McArthur for organising this National Leadership Development Seminar, and ensuring that Indigenous health – so often overlooked in the ongoing debates about health and health reform in Australia – receives the attention it deserves in this context. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Speech
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Opening address to the 'Indigenous peoples and racism' Conference A Regional Meeting for the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance by Dr William Jonas AM , Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner , Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 20 February 2001 -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Independent review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (2009)
The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) makes this submission to Mr Allan Hawke in response to the Independent review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. -
14 December 2012Book page
Regional consultations: African Australians - Compendium (2010)
The Commonwealth Government continues to encourage migrants and refugees to settle in regional, rural and remote areas, and many regional areas now have fairly stable, and in many instances, growing African Australian populations. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice23 June 2014Opinion piece
Alcohol reform requires balanced approach - Opinion Piece
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, wrote in The Australian that the way to tackle alcohol abuse is to empower communities to make decisions about alcohol management that are reasonable, proportionate, and necessary. -
31 January 2013Webpage
2006 Human Rights Medal and Awards Winners
<h1 style="margin-top: 24px; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; color: rgb(131, 112, 72); font-size: 22px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;">The 2006 Medal and Awards presentation ceremony was held on 7 December 2006 at a luncheon at the Sheraton on the Park hotel in Sydney.&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.humanrights.gov.au/about/media/speeches/speeches_president/2006/20061207_HumanRightsDay.html" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 255);">The Human Rights </a></h1> -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Summary of the submissions by the Commission
On 8 February 2002, the Full Court of the Family Court granted leave to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission ("the Commission") to intervene in the appeal by the Attorney-General against the judgment of Justice Chisholm on 12 October 2001. In that judgment, his Honour declared valid the marriage between Kevin (a post-operative female to male transsexual person) and Jennifer. Both parties had accepted that a valid marriage for the purposes of the Marriage Act 1961 (Cth) must be between a "man" and a "woman". -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice17 September 2015Opinion piece
White paper has the potential to improve indigenous lives
<p><strong>The Northern Australia white paper has the potential to be transformative in improving the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples if it increases the respect and value of their property rights and their right to development.</strong></p> -
Commission – General15 April 2020Webpage
Senate file listing: 1 July 2019 - 31 December 2019
<p><strong>SENATE FILE LIST FOR THE AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION</strong></p> <p><strong>1 JULY 2019 – 31 DECEMBER 2019</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://www.humanrights.gov.au/node/15999">see previous</a></p> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p>File Id</p> </td> <td> <p>Name</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>2019/2-2</p> </td> <td> <p>LAO PDR - AUSTRALIA HUMAN RIGHTS TECHNICAL COOPERATION PROGRAM (HRTCP) ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION 2018-2019<br><br> PUBLIC AWARENESS AND EDUCATION - INTERNATIONAL POLICY UNIT POLICY</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>2019/27-3</p></td></tr></tbody></table> -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
The Human Rights of Mentally Ill People:the HREOC inquiry and after
I congratulate the Probation and Parole Officers' Association for their initiative in organizing this conference on Mental Health, Criminal Justice and Corrections. -
14 December 2012Book page
2005 International Conference on Engaging Communities - Mr Darryl Pearce Presentation
Mr Pearce shared the experiences of Indigenous people in Western Australia to highlight the continuing disadvantage and ultimately prompt participants to think about how far we still have to go before Indigenous Australians can fully exercise their human rights. Examples of the inequality experienced include the high rates of imprisonment in the adult and juvenile justice systems, low levels of literacy, high population growth, high suicide rates, and high unemployment rates. -
Age Discrimination8 August 2023Speech
Building 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> -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2005 : Chapter 3 : The economic logic of the NIC Principles and economic development on Indigenous lands
As my predecessor pointed out in the Native Title Report 2003, native title is a political process as well as a legal process. Indigenous people enter a relationship with the State on the basis of their identity as the traditional owner group of an area of land. In some cases native title has provided the first opportunity since colonisation for a relationship of this type to be formed. -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Submission - Inquiry into Human Services (Enhanced Service Delivery) Bill 2007
As a result of their disadvantaged socio-economic status, most Indigenous Australians will be required to register for the access card in order to gain or maintain access to social welfare payments, Medicare services, and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme; -
Children's Rights30 June 2014Speech
Emerging priorities in my role as National Children’s Commissioner
I am honoured to be invited to participate in the Grand Rounds at the Royal Children’s Hospital. What a Grand title indeed, and it makes me feel a little as though I should be appropriately attired in a white coat with stethoscope. -
Children's Rights12 July 2019Speech
Children’s Rights in Australia: looking back and moving forward
<p>Good morning everyone. I’d like to begin today by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land, the Widjabul people of the Bundjalung nation. I acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make. I also pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging.</p>