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14 December 2012WebpageApplication for temporary exemption: Gove Peninsula Bus Service (2010)
The Commission has received an application (attached, MS Word format) from Yirrakala Business Enterprises (YBE(2)) under clause 31A of the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport (DSAPT) in relation to a proposed pilot bus service on the Gove Peninsula. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
NOTICE OF TEMPORARY EXEMPTION UNDER THE DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT: AIRNORTH
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission gives notice of a decision made on 15 February 2006 under section 57 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 ("DDA") concerning access to aircraft operated by Capiteq Ltd trading as AirNorth. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Notice of further temporary exemption application: Airnorth
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has received an application for temporary exemption under section 55 of the DDA regarding carriage of passengers with disabilities on low capacity aircraft, from Capiteq Ltd, trading as Airnorth. The application requests exemption from the operation of sections 23 and 24 of the DDA and from the operation of the Disability Standards for Accessible… -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Notice of temporary exemption under the DDA: Subscription Television Captioning
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission gives notice of a decision made on 10 June 2008 under section 57 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 ("DDA") concerning captioning of subscription television programming. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Introductory statement: Decision on exemption application: Australasian Railways Association
The Australian Human Rights Commission has decided to grant a number of temporary exemptions applied for by the Australasian Railways Association (ARA) , for a period of three years, from provisions of the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport. This is on the condition that members of the ARA comply with a revised set of obligations. This decision is thus about how rail services… -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
NOTICE OF TEMPORARY EXEMPTION UNDER THE DDA: QUEENSLAND RAIL
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission gives notice of a decision made on 11 February 2002 under section 57 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 ("DDA") concerning tactile ground surface indicators ("TGSIs"). -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
NOTICE OF TEMPORARY EXEMPTION UNDER THE DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT: AIRNORTH
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission gives notice of a decision made on 13 October 2003 under section 57 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 ("DDA") concerning access to regional air services operated by Airnorth. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Opinion pieceSmart and perceptive? Don't bank on it. (2011)
The following opinion pieces have been published by the President and Commissioners. Reproduction of the opinion pieces must include reference to where the opinion piece was originally published. -
Race Discrimination
14 December 2012WebpageThe International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)
Learn about the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1966), one of the first human rights treaties to be adopted by the UN. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012PublicationCorporate Responsibility - Developing principles on Resource Development on Indigenous land: Index
The following materials were developed developed from a forum entitled 'Resource Development on Aboriginal Land; a Human Rights Approach', which took place in Alice Springs in May 2002. The forum was co-hosted HREOC and Griffith University, with participants including representatives from Indigenous communities, mining companies and NGOs. -
Legal
29 February 2016Publication
Ghahani v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP)
Explore a report into arbitrary detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the case of Ghahani v Commonwealth of Australia. -
Legal
29 February 2016Publication
Kolind v Commonwealth of Australia (DET)
Explore a report into immigration detainees with adverse security assessments in the case of Ghahani v the Commonwealth of Australia. -
Legal
29 February 2016Publication
AI v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP)
Explore a report into arbitrary detention with family in the case of AI v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Immigration and Border Protection). -
Legal
29 February 2016Publication
HG v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP)
Explore a report into arbitrary detention in the case of HG v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Immigration and Border Protection). -
Children's Rights
10 October 2014Opinion pieceIt's time to strengthen our surrogacy laws to help protect children
NATIONWIDE regulations are urgently needed to cover situations when Australians are engaging surrogates to have children for them. The range of assisted reproductive technologies available today presents many legal, moral and ethical challenges. These are challenges we can no longer ignore and require national, state and international leadership. In Australia, altruistic surrogacy is… -
Legal
22 February 2016Publication
CM v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP)
Explore a report into arbitrary detention in the case of CM v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Immigration and Border Protection). -
Legal
22 February 2016Publication
Kong v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP)
Explore a report into arbitrary detention in the case of Kong v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Immigration and Border Protection). -
Complaint Information Service18 September 2014Webpage
Information sheets for complaints
Complaints about racial, sex, disability and age discrimination Information for Complainants in Word (191.3 KB) Information for Complainants in PDF (120.36 KB) Information for Respondents in Word Information for Respondents in PDF Conciliation information in Word Conciliation information in PDF Complaints about breaches of human rights and other discrimination in employment Information for -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
3 September 2014WebpageExpert reports from visits to immigration detention centres
The Commission visited various immigration detention centres as part of the Inquiry. The Commission was accompanied by various independent consultants including paediatricians and child psychiatrists. The following are some of the reports prepared by these consultants after their visits to immigration detention centres. These expert reports do not represent the views of the Commission. Visit… -
Sex Discrimination
20 January 2017PublicationA National System for Domestic and Family Violence Death Review
This report identifies the steps needed to expand domestic and family death review mechanisms to all Australian jurisdictions and to ensure that recommendations made to Federal Government agencies in death review processes are actioned. Australian data on domestic and family violence death is limited. While a number of Australian entities collect data on homicide, there is no nation-wide…