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14 December 2012Book page
Bringing them Home Report (1997)
This report is a tribute to the strength and struggles of many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by forcible removal. We acknowledge the hardships they endured and the sacrifices they made. We remember and lament all the children who will never come home. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Publication
Disability Rights: Not for Service: Index
Not For Service: Experiences of Injustice and Despair in Mental Health Care in Australia is the most significant report on mental health care in Australia for over a decade. In 1992 all Australian Governments initiated the National Mental Health Strategy to correct decades of neglect and assure the rights of people with mental illness. In 1993, the Australian Human Rights Commission's National… -
27 October 2015Book page
5. Applying for exemptions for targeted recruitment other than in New South Wales
As outlined in this guideline, in all jurisdictions except NSW, the granting of an exemption is not a legal prerequisite for conducting a targeted recruitment strategy, as long as the recruitment program meets the requirements of a special measure. This is because the purpose of an exemption is to exclude the application of a particular law to certain conduct which would otherwise breach… -
Rights and Freedoms1 May 2013Webpage
Freedom from slavery and forced labour
Read about the Commission's work in relation to ending slavery, including any forced or compulsory labour, along with the slave trade. -
22 July 2013Book page
A Message from the Commissioner
As a place where the future leaders of the Australian Defence Force are trained, what happens at ADFA has profound significance for Defence and for our nation. It is now more than one year since the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Review made a series of recommendations to improve the treatment of women at ADFA. These wide-ranging recommendations targeted many aspects of life at ADFA as… -
14 December 2012Book page
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace - A Short Guide to the Sexual Harassment Code of Practice
Sexual harassment is unwelcome sexual conduct which makes a person feel offended, humiliated and/or intimidated where that reaction is reasonable in the circumstances. Sexual harassment in employment is unlawful under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth). -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC - Annual Report 2001 - 2002: Chapter 9: International Activities
In 2001-02, as in past years, the Commission participated in some bilateral international program activities, generally as part of the Australian Government's development cooperation program developed by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). -
Rights and Freedoms14 December 2012Opinion piece
Don Dunstan Oration (2008)
People often ask me why I feel so strongly about human rights. Perhaps it is fate - both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and I were born 60 years ago. But I think it is simpler than that - I want to feel proud of the Australia that I live in. -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Notice of temporary exemption application: Airnorth Exemption application
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has received, by letter dated 15 April 2003, an application for temporary exemption under section 55 of the DDA regarding carriage of passengers with disabilities on low capacity aircraft, for a period of five years. -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Recommendation for temporary exemption: Murranumbla Bed and Breakfast
This is a recommendation for granting of a temporary exemption, for a period of 18 months, regarding disability access to bathroom facilities at a proposed bed and breakfast facility, on condition that within 12 months of the date of the exemption the operators commence work to provide accessible bathroom facilities and complete that work within 18 months of the date of the exemption. -
14 December 2012Book page
Appendix 2: Recommendations from the Social Justice Report 2009 - Social Justice Report 2010
In accordance with the functions set out in section 46C(1)(a) of the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth), this report includes 4 recommendations on justice reinvestment to reduce Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system, 7 recommendations for the protection of Indigenous languages and 1 recommendation for sustaining Aboriginal homeland communities. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice23 February 2015Project
Moving Forward - achieving reparations for the stolen generations
Learn about a conference held to facilitate debate about reparations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from the stolen generations. -
Rights and Freedoms20 January 2021Webpage
International engagement
Understand how The Australian Human Rights Commission, as the accredited national human rights institution for Australia, engages with UN mechanisms to promote and protect human rights both domestically and internationally. -
Sex Discrimination14 December 2012Speech
Woman and savings
1. " ... there are 106,000 poor single women over 65 as compared with 40,000 men in this group in 2000" Senate Community Affairs References Committee A Hand up not a hand out: Renewing the fight against poverty: Report on poverty and financial hardship, Commonwealth of Australia 2004, p211. 2. C Brown- Conference Paper- Retirement Income Modeling Task Force- Joint project Treasury ,… -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC - Annual Report 2001 - 2002: Chapter 7: Race Discrimination
Dr William Jonas commenced duty as acting Race Discrimination Commissioner in September 1999 in addition to his duties as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
Risky Business?
I make this acknowledgment in all my public presentations, because recognising the indigenous history of this land is an important element in recognising the truth of our diversity as a people. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
The DDA and employment of people with a disability
The standard sort of speech that is often delivered by people in my sort of position at this sort of event is a combination of pep talk and pamphlet, with some bits of a law lecture thrown in: telling people with a disability and their advocates that they have rights under discrimination law, and telling employers that they have responsibilities, and attempting to set out the terms and the effect… -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees10 October 2014Opinion piece
Magna Carta shelters asylum-seekers
NEXT year is the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, signed reluctantly by King John at the demand of his rebellious barons in 1215. Buried in the middle of this foundational document of English constitutional law — setting out the single measure for wine and ale and the rights of widows on the death of their husband — are these words: “No freeman is to be taken or imprisoned or disseised… -
Disability Rights12 April 2013Speech
Launch of Accessible events -- a guide for organisers (2006)
Launch of Accessible events -- a guide for organisers Gold Coast Convention Centre 27 April 2006 Graeme Innes Human Rights Commissioner and Disability Discrimination Commissioner Acknowledgements Annabel Davis, President of MEA Suzie Jones, Chair of the Conference organising Committee Linda Gaunt CEO of MEA MEA members Ladies and Gentlemen Introduction Allow me to begin by acknowledging the … -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission WEBSITE: Healthy Community Projects
In 1966 the UN adopted the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which Australia ratified in 1975. Article 12(a) of ICESCR states,
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