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Asylum Seekers and Refugees
16 June 2020SubmissionMigration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020
The concerns outlined in this submission draw on the Commission’s work inspecting Australia’s immigration detention facilities. The Commission has conducted such inspections since the mid-1990s. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012WebpageSenate File Listing 1 January 2008 - 30 June 2008
FileId: 2007/213-2 Create Date 26-Mar-2008 Name: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE - PRESIDENT 2006 JULY-DEC Title: PUBLIC AWARENESS AND EDUCATION - PRESIDENT AGENCY LIAISON -
14 December 2012Book page
Bringing them Home - Appendix 6
The Protector of Aborigines made the legal guardian of every `aboriginal and half-caste child' whose parents are dead or unknown, or one of whom agrees, until the age of 21. Any two Justices, with the consent of the Governor and one of the parents, may apprentice `any half-caste or other aboriginal child having obtained a suitable age' until the age of 21 provided that `due and reasonable… -
Rights and Freedoms
14 December 2012SpeechQueer Rights At Work
I also want to thank the conference organisers for the opportunity to speak today. conferences such as this are great opportunities to discuss some of the pressing human rights issues in Australia. I'm particularly pleased to be talking about queer rights in the workplace, as fair employment conditions are some of the most fundamental of all human rights. Trade unions have a long history of… -
Legal
14 December 2012WebpageSubmission: MIGRATION AMENDMENT (JUDICIAL REVIEW) BILL 2004
1. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission ('the Commission') has been invited by the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee ('the Committee') to make submissions on the Migration Amendment (Judicial Review) Bill 2004 ('the Bill'). -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Crimes Amendment (Bail and Sentencing) Bill 2006
1. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (‘the Commission’) provides this submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee (‘the Committee’) in its inquiry into the Crimes Amendment (Bail and Sentencing) Bill 2006 (‘the Bill’). -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012SpeechInnes: ‘Signing up'
Graeme Innes AM, Human Rights Commissioner and Commissioner Responsible for Disability Discrimination Deafness Forum Conference, Canberra, 24 May 2008. -
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,… -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Webpage
Australian Council of Human Rights Agencies (ACHRA) - UPR Progress Report (2011)
The Australian Government is to be commended for its frank and robust engagement in the UPR process to date, both in the formal working group session and in engaging with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), NGOs and civil society throughout the process. -
14 December 2012Book page
Annual Report 06-07: Chapter 4 - Complaint handling section
The President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) is responsible for the investigation and conciliation of complaints lodged under federal anti-discrimination and human rights law. Staff of HREOC’s Complaint Handling Section (CHS) assist the President to investigate and resolve complaints. The CHS also provides information to the public about the law and the… -
14 December 2012Book page
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
DR OZDOWSKI: I would like to formally open the second day of hearings in Adelaide. This is one of the hearings conducted around Australia for the National Inquiry into Children in Detention. My name is Sev Ozdowski, I'm the Human Rights Commissioner. With me is Mrs Robin Sullivan to my left, who is Queensland Children's Commissioner, and Dr Trang Thomas, on my right, is Professor of Psychology at… -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
The aim of this submission is to inform HREOC, at the outset of its Inquiry, of the concerns held about Children in Immigration in Detention, by members of the legal profession in New South Wales. The focus of the submission is limited to the issue of compliance with international and domestic legal obligations. Relevant obligations are outlined, concerns are highlighted and finally,… -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Speech
President Speech: ‘Women as Agents of Change’: Balancing the scales
I would like to begin by also acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. I pay my respects to their elders past and present. In particular, I would like to acknowledge the inspirational work of so many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women who have been agents of change, be they barristers, lawyers, judges, litigants or… -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Webpage
Senate File Listing 1 July 2010 to 31 December 2010
FileId: 2008/244-3 Create Date 02-Aug-2010 Name: SJR 2008 HEALING CHAPTER - LETTERS, CONSULTATIONS AND Title: RESOURCES HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLIANCE - SJU REPORTING -
Rights and Freedoms
3 May 2013Webpage
Nature of obligations regarding economic, social and cultural rights
Learn how our human rights are protected under the law and can only be altered by the state in the case of a national emergency and only within reason. -
Commission – General
14 December 2012Speech
Human Rights - Refugees and Terrorists - What Rights?
It is a great pleasure to be speaking today with Judge Clifford Wallace. I had the pleasure of meeting him on several occasions at Judges' conferences in the Pacific. I was very sorry to miss him when he was in Adelaide in 2003. -
Education18 March 2019Teachers Article
Commemorate Human Rights Day
Explore a resource designed to help students further their understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted in December 1948. -
Education18 March 2019Teachers Article
Understanding human rights
Explore Understanding Human Rights, which is a resource designed to help students understand human rights concepts and how they apply to everyday life. -
Legal
14 December 2012Webpage
Commission submissions: P v P
2. The exercise of the jurisdiction of the Family Court is directly linked to the child's capacity to consent and therefore the capacity to consent must be the first issue to be decided. -
25 September 2013Book page
4 Permissible limitations of the ICCPR right to freedom of expression
As noted above, article 19(3) of the ICCPR permits limitations on the rights recognised in article 19(2), but those limitations must be: (1) provided by law and (2) necessary for respect of the rights or reputations of others, for the protection of national security, public order, or public health or morals. The HRC in its General Comment 34 has emphasised that: when a State party imposes