Publications

Rights and Freedoms

Norfolk Island's Immigration Act and human rights

During 1997-98, in response to four complaints, the Commission conducted an inquiry into Norfolk Island's Immigration Act 1980. Norfolk Island is a territory of the Commonwealth and the only inhabited external territory not covered by the Commonwealth's Migration Act 1958.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Summary of the Toomelah Report (Community Guide)

SUMMARY OF THE TOOMELAH REPORT BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION JUNE 1988 In co-operation with: Aboriginal Development Unit Tranby Aboriginal Co-operative College 13 Mansfield Street Glebe NSW 2037 To the Aboriginal people of Toomelah and Boggabilla: We have written this booklet...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Social Justice Report 1998

Social Justice Report 1998 Download Social Justice Report 1998 in PDF (420K), Word (475K) Contents Letter of submission Foreword Introduction: A Handful of Soil Chapter 1: The Aftermath for Indigenous Peoples Chapter 2: Non-Indigenous Community Responses Chapter 3: Church Responses Chapter 4...

Disability Rights

The Sterilisation of Girls and Young Women in Australia

The legal framework regulating sterilisation of children in Australia was set out by the High Court in Marion's Case in 1992

Disability Rights

Reflections - first 5 years of the Disability Discrimination Act

As I reach the end of my appointment as the first Disability Discrimination Commissioner, and in the light of proposed structural and funding changes to the Commission, I am drawn to reflect upon the theory and practice, challenges and developments, lessons and achievements, of the first five years...

Disability Rights

Overlooked Consumers – Australians with Disabilities and Older People

Every day, one in five Australians experiences difficulties or frustrations in performing everyday tasks with everyday things, such as consumer electronics and appliances. As technology develops, an increasing proportion of products are inaccessible to people with a range of different disabilities...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Bringing Them Home: The 'Stolen Children' report (1997)

Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. April 1997.

Race Discrimination

The RDA and native title (1997)

The response to the High Court’s Wik decision has given rise to intense discussions about the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (RDA), the Australian Constitution and the future of native title, among other things.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Indigenous Deaths in Custody:

A Report prepared by the Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Mornington Island Review Report

This review is a follow-up to Mornington: A Report by the Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner, released in April 1993. That Report was the result of a two-and-a-half year investigation into a range of issues affecting Aboriginal people living on Mornington Island in far north Queensland.

LGBTIQ+

Report of the Human Rights Commissioner on certain provisions of the Tasmanian Criminal Code

BACKGROUND Two sections of the Tasmanian Criminal Code (Section 122 (a) and (c) and Section 123) criminalise some forms of sexual activity between males and females and all forms of sexual intercourse between males, including all forms of sexual intercourse and at least some expressions of sexual...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Toomelah Review (1989)

On 15 June 1988 the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission released the Toomelah Report, containing the results of its inquiry into the social and material needs of Aborigines in the New South Wales/Queensland border towns of Toomelah and Boggabilla. The Commission undertook at the time to...