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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
24 November 2017WebpageVideos
<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Introduction to the project by June Oscar, Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner:</p> <p><iframe title="June Oscar AO - Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women's Voices) Project" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" gesture="media" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fi_KPbvFpgw?rel=0" width="560"></iframe></p> <p>We asked our Ambassadors, Dr Anita Heiss and Magnolia Maymuru to share their stories of strength and resilience as well as what makes them they feel empowered. Please view and share with your friends.</p> -
Rights and Freedoms
8 April 2015SpeechLaunch of the Rights & Responsibilities Consultation 2014 Report
<p>Thank you for coming. It's a great pleasure to launch the <a href="https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/rights-and-freedoms/publications/rights-responsibilities-consultation-report">report from our Rights and Responsibilities Consultation</a>.</p> <p>Like my Commissioner colleagues, the role of Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner is to look at systemic public policy issues. No Commissioner investigates complaints from the public. That is the role of the President.</p> -
14 December 2012Book page
Appendix 2 Schedule of Public Hearings and Witness List
The Inquiry held 61 public sessions (105 witnesses) and 24 confidential sessions (50 witnesses) between May 2002 and August 2002. Nine of the witnesses in confidential hearings (7 sessions) later agreed to make their evidence public. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
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Thank you Tiffany, as a Descendant of the Wiradjuri and Wongaibon Nations I would like to acknowledge the Ancestors, Elders and their descendants of the Ngunnawal people and I would like thank Aunty Ruth and Uncle Cecil for welcoming me here today. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
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I would like to begin by acknowledging the Wurundjeri people, the traditional owners and custodians of the land where we meet and to pay my respects to the elders. -
Rights and Freedoms
19 May 2014Opinion piece
Opening minds to ‘forgotten freedoms’
<p>Opinion by Human Rights Commissioner, Tim Wilson. First published in <em>The Australian</em> on 17 May 2014.</p> <p>Reform is not the end of debating free speech in Australia, it is the beginning</p> <p>The “forgotten freedoms” provide the foundations of our liberal democracy, and we have to reconnect with them.</p> <p>There are competing views about how human rights and freedoms should be approached. After all, human rights are an entirely political construct.</p> -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012SpeechAccess on the agenda
Paper delivered by Elizabeth Hastings Disability Discrimination Commissioner 1993-97 at the Creating Accessible Communities Conference Fremantle, 12 November 1996 -
Commission – General
14 December 2012SpeechSite navigation
Amongst all this expertise, it is fair to ask why is the President of the national human rights commission – and particularly a President who has only fairly recently commenced in this role - here presenting the keynote speech to such a conference? -
29 November 2016Book page
Recommendations
<p><b>Recommendation 1:</b> The Australian Government follow up the initial meetings with Indigenous leadership with regular consultations which materially inform policy and legislation impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.<br><br><b>Recommendation 2:</b> The Australian Government pursue the key priorities for change and recommendations outlined in the Redfern Statement, utilising the Council of Australian Governments and other processes to engage states and territories.<br></p> -
Sex Discrimination
3 December 2020SpeechThe Beijing Platform for Action, 25 years on: Progress, Retreat and the Future of Women's Rights
<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> -
Commission – General
25 May 2020Opinion piece
Turning the Uluru Statement into action
<p>On the ancient lands of the Anangu, dust settled and ink dried on a document that marked an extraordinary moment in Australia’s history.&nbsp;</p> <p>From all points of the southern sky, we gathered in the centre of the country we’ve called home for more than 60 thousand years, to endorse a statement that would pave the way for First Nations peoples&nbsp;to have a voice enshrined in the Constitution.&nbsp;</p> -
Legal
14 December 2012WebpageSubmission - Proposed WA Human Rights Act (2007)
All persons are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law. In this respect, the law shall prohibit any discrimination and guarantee to all persons equal and effective protection against discrimination on any ground such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
29 May 2019Opinion piece
Indigenous Australians can be bystanders no longer
<p>Two years ago, we gathered in the red dust for a ceremony at Uluru and offered a gift to all Australians.<br><br> &nbsp;<br><br> There was a great sense of hope about what this gift could deliver. A new beginning, an opportunity to re-define who we are as a country. A country that celebrates its First Peoples and resets the relationship between all Australians for a better future.<br><br> &nbsp;<br><br></p> -
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14 December 2012Webpage
Subject Index - Submissions to the Commonwealth Parliament
The Commission seeks to promote and protect human rights through submissions to parliamentary inquiries, government departments and law reform bodies. -
3 January 2014Book page
2 Background and framework for promotion and protection of human rights
<h3>2.1 Scope of international obligations</h3> <ol start="10"></ol> -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Speech
Launch of the Supreme Court Equal Treatment Benchbook
When I first entered the law 'benchbooks' were closely guarded, leather bound books into which judges carefully entered notes as a case progressed - usually I thought adverse comments and exclamation marks about one's arguments or less than flattering remarks about one's principal witness. These books seemed to be some kind of secret code to the outcome of cases and never saw the light of day. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Webpage
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - Human rights at your fingertips - Human rights at your fingertips
On 18 December 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. It entered into force as an international treaty on 3 September 1981 after the twentieth country had ratified it. By the tenth anniversary of the Convention in 1989, almost one hundred nations have agreed to be bound by its provisions. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Speech
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The Annual Mitchell Oration is held as a tribute to Dame Roma’s lifelong efforts to improve the respect in Australia for human rights, and to counter discrimination experienced by many people, especially women, members of Indigenous communities, and of ethnic minorities. -
30 January 2013Webpage
Human Rights Medal
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4 February 2015Book page
7 Preschoolers in detention
<ul> <li><a href="#a7-1">7.1 Forming relationships </a></li> <li><a href="#a7-2">7.2 The detention environment</a></li> <li><a href="#a7-3">7.3 Opportunities for play, learning and development </a></li> <li><a href="#a7-4">7.4 Impacts on preschoolers </a></li> <li><a href="#a7-5">7.5 Findings specific to preschoolers</a></li> </ul>