Publications

Disability Rights

Willing to Work - Booklet 2: employment and older Australians

Explore what older Australians and those with a disability can do when they encounter employment discrimination.

Disability Rights

Willing to Work - employment and Australians with disability

Disability Rights

Willing to Work - Booklet 4: what you can do about employment discrimination

Disability Rights

Willing to Work - Booklet 1: about the National Inquiry

Explore a series of booklets that are part of a National Inquiry in to employment discrimination against older Australians and Australians with disability.

Commission – General

Corporate Plan 2015-2016

This Corporate Plan sets out the strategic direction and priorities of the Commission four the next four years. It creates an explicit connection between the public reporting of our corporate goals, our operational environment, key activities for the coming year and annual performance reporting.

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Use of force in immigration detention facilities

The Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015 (the Bill) would give increased power to ‘authorised officers’ to use force against people (including asylum seekers) in immigration detention facilities. It appears that the majority (if not all) of...

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Summary factsheet - The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014

The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014 Summary factsheet July 2015 What was the Inquiry about? On 3 February 2014 the President of the Commission announced a national inquiry into children in immigration detention. The purpose of the Inquiry was to...

Race Discrimination

National 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...

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Children in immigration detention: statements by health professional organisations

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Children in immigration detention: statements by the United Nations

Learn how the United Nations states that children do not belong in immigration detention and that under international law, states should not detain them.

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Tell Me About: Children in immigration detention in Nauru

On 13 August 2012 the Australian Government reintroduced a system of third country processing for asylum seekers who arrive by boat without a valid visa. Under this system these asylum seekers, including children, must be transferred to a third country as soon as is reasonably practicable, unless...

Disability Rights

Issues paper: Employment discrimination against Australians with disability

This Paper is one of two Issues Papers for the Willing to Work: National Inquiry into Employment Discrimination against Older Australians and Australians with Disability. This paper focuses on issues facing persons with disability, while the other focuses on issues facing older Australians. Each...

Age Discrimination

Issues paper: Employment discrimination against older Australians

This Paper is the one of two Issues Papers for the Willing to Work: National Inquiry into Employment Discrimination against Older Australians and Australians with Disability. This paper focuses on issues facing older Australians, while the other focuses on issues facing persons with disability. Each...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Know your rights: Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanders (2014)

This brochure explains what racial discrimination is and what you can do it you experience it, as well as the work of the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

LGBTIQ+

Resilient Individuals: Sexual Orientation Gender Identity & Intersex Rights 2015

Message from the Commissioner The role of the Human Rights Commissioner is to raise systemic public policy issues that impact on human rights, and seek reform. The Commission has in its legislation commissioners responsible for age, disability, race and sex discrimination. There are also...