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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. -
Rights and Freedoms
13 February 2017Opinion pieceOPCAT could revolutionise Australia's treatment of detainees
The federal government has announced it will ratify and implement the OPCAT treaty . Few people will have heard of OPCAT (Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture). It creates no new legal rights. Yet it could be the single most positive step this decade in improving conditions in all Australian places of detention. OPCAT will enhance how independent bodies inspect places of… -
Rights and Freedoms
1 May 2013Webpage
Prohibition on imprisonment for inability to fulfil a contract
Learn how Australians could once be imprisoned on the grounds of not fulfilling a contract and how this is no longer the case. -
Race Discrimination
17 July 2015PublicationNational Anti-racism Strategy Evaluation 2015
The National Anti-Racism Strategy was developed to help people to understand what racism is and why it is a problem. And it was about empowering people to prevent racism from happening and to reduce it in their communities. Almost three years on from its launch in August 2012, we can report on the Strategy’s success. But we do so in the knowledge that more remains to be done. -
Commission – General
30 January 2013Webpage2013 Human Rights Medal and Awards Winners
Human Rights Medal Sister Clare CondonSister Clare Condon is the Congregational Leader of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St Benedict. Sister Clare has been with the Sisters of the Good Samaritan for about 40 years. Under her leadership, the Sisters of the Good Samaritan have helped provide emergency housing for women and children experiencing domestic violence and have… -
Race Discrimination
2 October 2013Project
National Anti-Racism Strategy and Racism. It Stops with Me Campaign
Learn about the National Anti-Racism Strategy and the ‘Racism. It Stops with Me’ campaign by the Australian Human Rights Commission -
18 March 2013Book page
Casenote: Monis v The Queen [2013] HCA 4
Important High Court cases on freedom of expression Two sets of decisions issued last week by the High Court of Australia highlight the need for continuing discussion of options for improved legislative frameworks to protect freedom of expression and other human rights. In Attorney-General for South Australia v Corporation of the City of Adelaide and Orsa majority of the Court upheld a local… -
14 December 2012Book page
A Time to Value - Recommendations
Recommendation 2: That a national scheme of paid leave at the time of birth of a child be provided for women. The exceptions to this, where payment can be made to a woman's partner, should include where the mother has died, where the mother is not medically able to care for the child (based on a doctor's opinion), or where the child has been adopted. -
14 December 2012Book page
Annual Report 2002-2003: Chapter 9
In 2002–03, 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). -
Legal
20 March 2013PublicationCasenote: Monis v The Queen [2013] HCA 4
SUMMARY: Two sets of decisions issued last week by the High Court of Australia highlight the need for continuing discussion of options for improved legislative frameworks to protect freedom of expression and other human rights. -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2007: Appendix 11
1.1 That the Australian Government immediately appoint an independent person to conduct a comprehensive review of the whole native title system and report back to the Attorney-General by 30 June 2010. This review is to: -
Rights and Freedoms
18 May 2013Webpage
The collective aspect of freedom to manifest religion or belief
Article 18 of the ICCPR explicitly includes the freedom to manifest beliefs ‘in community with others’. As prominent human rights scholar Yoram Dinstein explains: ... freedom of religion, as an individual right, may be nullified unless complemented by a collective human right of the religious group to construct the infrastructure making possible the full enjoyment of that freedom by… -
Sex Discrimination
6 March 2015Project
Collaboration for Cultural Reform in Defence
The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) collaborates with Defence to support and improve Defence’s cultural reform priorities -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Removal of Mandatory Minimum Penalties) Bill 2012
The Commission supports the repeal from the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) (Migration Act) of the mandatory minimum penalties currently applicable to the aggravated offence of people smuggling. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Temporary exemptions under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth)
Section 44 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) (the Sex Discrimination Act) gives the Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) the power to grant temporary exemptions from certain provisions of the Sex Discrimination Act. Section 44 of the Sex Discrimination Act provides as follows. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012SpeechSydney City Access Forum
I would like to thank you Councillor Kemmis and your CEO Monica Barone for the invitation to attend this Forum as it gives me an opportunity to discuss the critical role that Local Government can play in ensuring people with disabilities have access to, and are able to contribute to, the social, cultural, economic and political community in which we live. -
Rights and Freedoms
1 May 2013Webpage
Rights of members of ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities
Back to rights and freedoms: right by right ICCPR Article 27 states In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion, or to use their own language. Human Rights Committee… -
14 December 2012Book page
Native Title Report 2002: Principles of Discrimination and Native Title
Miriuwung Gajerrong [1] reiterates the principles which guide the High Court’s interpretation of whether laws of the Commonwealth, State or Territory are discriminatory under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cwlth) (‘RDA’), particularly as they apply to legislation which authorises dealings with land. These principles are based on the High Court’s decisions in Gerhardy … -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Inquiry into the Transportation of Detained Persons (2010)
I welcome this opportunity to follow up on the Australian Human Rights Commission’s work in the inquest into the death of Mr Ward. Many of the Commission’s submissions were accepted by the Coroner and reflected in his findings and recommendations. -
Rights and Freedoms
1 May 2013Webpage
Right to humane treatment in detention
Learn how under human rights law, all Australians have the right to humane treatment while in detention and that adults and children must be separated.