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Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
GUIDE DOG OWNERS AND FRIENDS ASSOCIATION
I have been concerned for some time of legislation which is being passed without any consultation whatsoever with our organisation. As some people may remember, I was the one that fought hard and succeeded in getting legislation passed for dog guides to go into any place and on all forms of public transport. This legislation was passed in 1957 but now it has been made more or less obsolete as dog guides have to compete with companion dogs, hearing dogs, assistance dogs and puppies being walked by people rearing them for future dog guides. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
Submission on Australian ratificaton of Disability Convention
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) makes this submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties in its Inquiry into he Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. -
Disability Rights7 June 2024Webpage
Bringing a disability lens to the COVID-19 health policy response
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice7 June 2024Webpage
Learning from crisis
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Rights and Freedoms7 June 2024Webpage
How were you affected by COVID measures?
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Race Discrimination7 June 2024Webpage
Racial Equality in the Time of Coronavirus: 2020 Kep Enderby Lecture
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Rights and Freedoms7 June 2024Webpage
Time for review on COVID-19 border and quarantine restrictions
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Rights and Freedoms7 June 2024Webpage
Enhancing human rights in a post-COVID world
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Rights and Freedoms7 June 2024Webpage
Loss of freedoms and rights has harmed us
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Rights and Freedoms7 June 2024Webpage
Human Rights in the time of Covid
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Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
Speeches: DON'T JUDGE WHAT I CAN DO BY WHAT YOU THINK I CAN'T
(These are speaking notes used by the Commissioner at a series of events in all Australian capitals as well as Alice Springs through March 2003. Speeches as delivered included acknowledgement of State and Territory anti-discrimination colleauges co-hosting forums in each case as well as guests from the disability community including those presenting personal accounts of use of the DDA.) -
Commission – General7 June 2024Media Release
Hundreds of advocates support push for Australian Human Rights Act
More than 700 human rights advocates from across Australia, including more than 60 eminent experts, have called on the Federal Government to introduce a Human Rights Act at a major national conference in Sydney today. Buoyed by last week’s Parliamentary Joint Committee On Human Rights recommendations, delegates at the two-day Free + Equal Human Rights Conference pledged their support for the ... -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Inquiry report
Summary and recommendations Introduction Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport Focus on response times Consumer experiences Private arrangements outside booking systems Setting and monitoring of performance standards Proportions of accessible taxis in fleets Proportion of WATs to WAT users Other factors affecting adequacy of service Relationship of fleet proportions to service outcomes Regional WAT services and community transport Reasons for low proportions of accessible vehicles More active enforcement Enforcement approaches alone may not be effective Comparison with funding o -
Commission – General23 November 2020Webpage
Common questions about Covid-19
The Australian Human Rights Commission works to help safeguard the human rights of all people in our community. ... -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 June 2024Speech
4th National Indigenous Empowerment Summit
‘Framing Indigenous empowerment with human rights: using the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for real change’ Wednesday 12 June 2024 Good Morning All My name is Katie Kiss. I am a proud Kaanju, Biri/Widi woman from North Queensland. I was born and raised on the lands of the Darumbal peoples in Rockhampton, in Central Queensland. Before I begin today, I pay my respects to the ... -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
Conciliated DDA complaints
A substantial proportion of complaints under the DDA are resolved by the parties deciding to settle the matter by conciliation, with the assistance of the Commission but without the Commission or the courts having to formally decide that unlawful discrimination has occurred or what the remedy should be. Thousands of complaints have been conciliated under the DDA. -
Education14 December 2012Publication
RightsED: Child Rights
All people – no matter their age, sex, colour, religion or where they live – have the same basic needs to live a healthy life. These needs include food, shelter, education, healthcare and freedom from persecution and discrimination. -
Disability Rights2 May 2016Publication
Willing to Work: National Inquiry into Employment Discrimination
Learn how the right to work is a fundamental human right, though one that many older people and people with disability in Australia do not enjoy. -
14 December 2012Book page
Recommendations
Recommendation 1: The Migration Act 1958 (Cth), and if appropriate the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth), should be amended to make clear that for the purposes of Part 2, Division 12, Subdivision A of the Migration Act, an individual who claims to be under the age of 18 years must be deemed to be a minor unless the relevant decision-maker is positively satisfied, or in the case of a judicial decision-maker, satisfied on the balance of probabilities after taking into account the matters identified in s 140(2) of the Evidence Act 1995 (Cth), that the individual is over the age of 18 years. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Webpage
DDA conciliation: employment
A man who had applied for a managerial position complained that he had been unsuccessful because of a previous back injury and workers compensation claims.