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14 December 2012WebpageCommission guidelines for the examination of enactments under Commission legislation
The Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth) (AHRC Act) provides that one of the functions of the Commission is to examine enactments for the purpose of ascertaining whether the enactments are inconsistent with or contrary to any human right. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012SpeechWORLD REFUGEE DAY 2004
Before I begin, I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we stand and pay my respects to their elders both past, present and future. -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Report No. 21
This is a Report of the findings and reasons for findings made by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (the Commission) following an inquiry conducted by the Commission.[1] The inquiry related to a complaint by Amnesty International Australia (Amnesty) against the Commonwealth of Australia (the Commonwealth), Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (the… -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
9 July 2014WebpageHandout for hearing: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014
Key Statistics: 983 children in immigration detention: 775 children are held in locked immigration detention facilities in Australian territories and 208 children are held in detention in Nauru (as at 31 May 2014) 304 children are detained on Christmas Island as at 31 March 2014 and are subject to offshore transfer to Nauru as prescribed by Australian Government policy 54 unaccompanied… -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
We must face up to our humanitarian responsibilities to accept refugee children and their families. We must take them out of the immigration detention centres and welcome them into the community where they can play, learn and grow. At least then when our children look back on this time and ask us what we did to stand up for refugee kids, we can say we gave them their childhood." (Calvert,… -
Disability Rights
4 April 2024WebpageLisa Stafford
Learn about IncludeAbility Ambassador Lisa Stafford pursuing a career while living with multiple autoimmune inflammatory diseases and neurological conditions. -
Rights and Freedoms
8 October 2019Speech
Free and Equal: An Australian Conversation on Human Rights
‘Free and Equal: An Australian Conversation on Human Rights’ 8 October 2019 Opening Remarks Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM President, Australian Human Rights Commission Check against delivery Your Excellency, Dr Michele Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Australian Human Rights Commission Commissioners—Dr Ben Gauntlett, Disability Discrimination… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
24 May 2023News storyUluru Statement calls for First Nations’ voice in the constitution
To resounding applause, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates from across the country have agreed to a landmark Uluru Statement calling for the establishment of a First Nations’ voice enshrined in the constitution. "We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart. "Our Aboriginal and Torres… -
14 December 2012Book page
A last resort? Audio files
Media Pack Homepage Statements by Dr Sev Ozdowski, Human Rights Commissioner -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Submission - Native Title Act 1993 regarding the Native Title Representative Bodies (2006)
Mr Peter Vaughan Group Manager Land and Resources Group Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination Department of Family and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs -
Children's Rights
3 July 2023Project
Youth Justice and Child Wellbeing Reform Across Australia
The National Children’s Commissioner is investigating youth justice reform in Australia, aiming to protect children’s rights and reduce crime involvement. -
14 December 2012Book page
A Last Resort? - Summary Guide (2004)
It was established to consider whether Australia's immigration detention laws and its treatment of children in immigration detention comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. -
Business and Human Rights
30 November 2022SpeechExecutive discretion in a time of COVID-19
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have required very quick action by governments. But those responses have also involved significant limitations on people’s rights and freedoms, especially freedom of movement, and implemented through executive power often with limited parliamentary involvement. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012Speech
"AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS - INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE WIRE": DR SEV OZDOWSKI OAM (2004)
The first program I intend to watch will not be "The Block" but a program that is screening on Channel 4 in the U.K. and on Foxtel in this country. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012SpeechSite navigation
Thank you Professor Lansbury, and thank you to Marian and the Women and Work Research Group for organising today’s forum. Thank you also to our panellists – Dr Lyn Craig, Petra Stirling, and John Murray. -
29 January 2015Book page
1 Introduction
1.1 A snapshot of children in detention 1.2 Australian law and the detention of children 1.3 Does the Government owe a duty of care to children in detention? 1.4 International law and the detention of children My hope finished now. I don’t have any hope. I feel I will die in detention. (Unaccompanied 17 year old, Phosphate Hill Detention Centre, Christmas Island, 4 March 2014) Drawing by… -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Commissioners: DR SEV OZDOWSKI, Human Rights Commissioner MRS ROBIN SULLIVAN, Queensland Children's Commissioner PROFESSOR TRANG THOMAS, Professor of Psychology, Melbourne Institute of Technology MS VANESSA LESNIE, Secretary to the Inquiry -
14 December 2012Book page
Comment: specific to Remote areas
Defining 'remote' as those regions where the nearest Capital city is a thousands plus kilometre away … and / or, where the largest population centres have only thousands of occupants and are hundreds of kilometres away. -
Rights and Freedoms
14 April 2022Speech
Address to the 2022 Friendship and Dialogue Iftar Dinner
Affinity Intercultural Foundation, NSW Parliament House 13th Friendship and Dialogue Iftar Dinner Wednesday 13 April 2022 Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM As-salamu alaykum: may peace be upon you. Acknowledgements Our Parliamentary hosts, distinguished guests, of whom there are indeed many, friends. Thank you to Ahmet Polat and his team at Affinity Intercultural Foundation for… -
14 December 2012Book page
Executive Summary
This executive summary is divided into two parts. Part A sets out the major findings and recommendations of the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention (the Inquiry). Part B provides a chapter summary of the Inquiry's report: A last resort?