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Race Discrimination
10 October 2024Opinion pieceAlbanese’s cabinet reshuffle is a chance to reset the rhetoric on immigration and multiculturalism
As Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman writes for The Guardian Australia, the language used when speaking about those seeking our protection matters. He writes that Australia must take action against discrimination and racism – starting from the top. -
Rights and Freedoms
9 October 2024News storyStatement: Inquiry into antisemitism at Australian Universities
President Hugh de Kretser gave at opening statement at the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry into the proposed Commission of Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities Bill (2024) -
Race Discrimination
18 September 2024Publication
Mapping government anti-racism programs and policies
This report enhances the Commission’s understanding of how Australia's national, state, territory and local governments engage in anti-racism work. It describes the nature and scope of their policies and programs over the past five years. -
Sex Discrimination
23 August 2024Media ReleaseSex Discrimination Commissioner comments on Federal Court judgment in Tickle v Giggle for Girls Pty Ltd
Federal Court handed down judgement that Roxanne Tickle was discriminated against when she was refused access to a social media app, ‘made for women by women’. -
Technology and Human Rights
7 August 2024SubmissionCriminalising deepfake sexual material
Learn more about proposed amendments to the Criminal Code which criminalises the creation and transmission of sexual deepfakes. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
11 July 2024SpeechEMRIP - Enhanced participation in the work of the Human Rights Council
Statement from Katie Kiss at the 17th EMRIP session which advises on Indigenous rights and participation. -
Race Discrimination
9 July 2024Webpage
Mapping government anti-racism programs and policies
This report enhances the Commission’s understanding of how Australia's national, state, territory and local governments engage in anti-racism work. It describes the nature and scope of their policies and programs over the past five years. -
Business and Human Rights
27 May 2024SubmissionAustralia's Anti-Slavery Commissioner
Learn more about the creation of an Australia Anti-Slavery Commissioner and how this could strengthen Australia's response to modern slavery. -
Race Discrimination
30 May 2024Opinion piece
Race Discrimination Commissioner: Why ABC chiefs should back Laura Tingle for calling out racism
This opinion piece by Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman appeared in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. As is often the case, the person who calls out racism in Australia faces far more scrutiny than the racism itself. Laura Tingle's comments at the Sydney Writer's Festival last weekend - that Australia is a racist country - have triggered a fierce backlash, ranging… -
Rights and Freedoms
29 May 2024Opinion piece
In silence, anti-Semitism and racism flourishes
This opinion piece by Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay appeared in The Nightly on Wednesday 27 March 2024. The foundation of universal human rights lies in recognising the inherent dignity and equal rights of every single human being. Human rights can’t be applied selectively. Every Australian, regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, or any other distinction, has the… -
Race Discrimination
11 March 2024Webpage
Race Discrimination Commissioner, Mr Giridharan Sivaraman
Meet Giridharan Sivaraman, Race Discrimination Commissioner, advocating for rights and inclusion. Learn about racism and take action. -
Technology and Human Rights
6 May 2024Opinion piece
Protecting Free Speech Doesn’t Mean Dismissing Online Safety
This opinion piece by Human Rights Commissioner, Lorraine Finlay, appeared in The Australian on Monday 29 April 2024. When President Roosevelt gave the 1941 State of the Union Address he spoke of four essential human freedoms that people ‘everywhere in the world’ ought to enjoy. The very first of these was freedom of speech and expression. Free speech was listed first because it is the… -
Race Discrimination
5 February 2024News story
Commission welcomes new Race Discrimination Commissioner
The Australian Human Rights Commission welcomes the appointment of Giridharan Sivaraman as the new Race Discrimination Commissioner. “We are very excited by this appointment. On behalf of the Commission, I would like to warmly welcome Giridharan Sivaraman to the role of Race Discrimination Commissioner,” said Commission President, Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM. “For decades, the… -
Disability Rights
30 June 2021ProjectReform of the assistance animals provision of the Disability Discrimination Act (2003)
Reform of the assistance animals provision of the Disability Discrimination Act REPORT FOLLOWING CONSULTATIONS ON SECTION 9(1)(f) OF THE DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 1992 DEALING WITH ASSISTANCE ANIMALS OTHER THAN GUIDE DOGS AND HEARING DOGS. Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM Acting Disability Discrimination Commissioner 18 November 2003 Section 9 of the Disability Discrimination Act ("the DDA") defines … -
Technology and Human Rights
24 August 2023Opinion piece
Why Misinformation Bill risks Freedoms it Aims to Protect
Learn more about the federal government’s proposed Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill. -
Race Discrimination
2 July 2024Speech
The role of NHRIs in promoting equality and non-discrimination
The role of NHRIs in promoting equality and non-discrimination, with a focus on Africans and people of African descent Regional Meeting for Asia and the Pacific region on the International Decade for People of African Descent President Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM Introduction and context I would like to thank the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, for his opening -
Age Discrimination
3 July 2024SpeechKeynote Address to the Law Council of Australia
Mr Robert Fitzgerald AM, Age Discrimination Commissioner Friday, 31 May 2024 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Introduction I would like to thank the Law Council of Australia for this invitation to speak at your National Elder Law and Succession Law Committee meeting, and to your committee chair, Darryl Browne, for introducing me. I wish to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the… -
Disability Rights
5 May 2019Video
Carly Findlay gives the 2019 Matt Laffan Memorial Address
In March 2009, Sydney Law School alumnus Matt Laffan passed away after he fought and lost the biggest battle of his colourful and active life. On 27 February 2019, Carly Findlay, writer and appearance activist, will deliver a memorial address to celebrate the significant impact Matt made in his short life. The 2019 address is jointly co-hosted by Sydney Law School and the Australian Human… -
Technology and Human Rights
13 April 2023Submission
Safeguarding the Right to Privacy
Learn more about how the human right to privacy can be protected by reforming the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). -
Children's Rights
4 October 2019Media ReleaseUN calls for national action to protect the rights of children and young people in Australia
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is calling on Australia to prioritise raising the age of criminal responsibility as part of its Concluding Observations on Australia's performance in protecting the country's children and young people. This comes at a time when there is a strong push around the country to improve our responses to juvenile offending and do more to divert children…