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'Help Way Earlier!'- transforming child justice for safety & wellbeing

Report artwork copyright Bernard Singleton and Saltwater People 2024. 'Help way earlier!’ How Australia can transform child justice to improve safety and wellbeing investigates opportunities for reform of child justice and related systems across Australia based on children’s rights and sound...

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Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Tell Me ��鱨վ: ��鱨վ in immigration detention in Nauru

16th June, 2015

Transfer of asylum seeker children to 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...

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Disability Rights

Issues paper: Employment discrimination against Australians with disability

15th June, 2015

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...

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Age Discrimination

Issues paper: Employment discrimination against older Australians

15th June, 2015

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...

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Know your rights: Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanders (2014)

15th June, 2015

This brochure explains what racial discrimination is and what you can do it you experience it, as well as the work of the ��鱨վ and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Read the...

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LGBTIQ+

Resilient Individuals: Sexual Orientation Gender Identity & Intersex Rights 2015

10th June, 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...

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Commission - General

Annual Report 2013-14

The role of the ��鱨վ is to see that human rights and fundamental freedoms are understood and respected in law, policy and practice. The Commission is independent from government, with a legislative mandate, and recognised internationally as an ‘A status’ national human...

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��鱨վs Rights

��鱨վ’s Commissioners and Guardians Communique 20–21 May 2015

21st May, 2015

The ACCG meets twice each year, and aims to promote and protect the safety, well-being and rights of children and young people in Australia, and ensure that the best interests of children and young people are considered in public policy and program development across Australia.

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Rights and Freedoms

War and Peace: The ANZAC spirit and human rights

24th April, 2015

Learn about the intersection of war, peace, the ANZAC spirit, and human rights, highlighting historical and contemporary perspectives.

Age Discrimination

National prevalence survey of age discrimination in the workplace 2015

22nd April, 2015

Foreword The longevity revolution is underway, inexorably. The number of Australians aged 65 and over is projected to more than double by 2055, when there will be around 40,000 people aged 100 and over. Life expectancy continues to increase. In 2055, men can expect to live on average to 95.1 and...

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Disability Rights

Info and Communications Technology in the A.P.S – the need for change

1st April, 2015

April 2015 Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 What do we mean by accessible ICT? 3 The case for accessible ICT 4 Legal dimensions 5 International Experience 6 Procurement of ICT in the APS to-date 7 The way forward 8 Appendix – Private Sector Examples The ��鱨վ would...

Rights and Freedoms

Rights & Responsibilities Consultation Report

30th March, 2015

Rights & Responsibilities 2014 was a national consultation conducted by the Human Rights Commissioner between August and December 2014. The consultation examined how well people think their human rights and freedoms are protected in Australia.

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��鱨վs Rights

Supporting young children's rights

30th March, 2015

Statement of intent (2015–2018) between Early Childhood Australia (ECA), its members and the National ��鱨վ’s Commissioner at the ��鱨վ.

Cover of a report titled The Forgotten ��鱨վ, featuring a young child looking through a metal fence. The report is from the ��鱨վ, 2014, about children in immigration detention.

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

National Inquiry into ��鱨վ in Immigration Detention (2014)

12th February, 2015

Australia currently holds about 800 children in mandatory closed immigration detention for indefinite periods, with no pathway to protection or settlement. This includes 186 children detained on Nauru. ��鱨վ and their families have been held on the mainland and on Christmas Island for, on average...

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Close the Gap - Progress and priorities report 2015

11th February, 2015

In the spirit of an open and constructive dialogue between government, the wider community, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the Close the Gap Campaign annually produces this progress and priorities report alongside the Prime Minister’s report.

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Legal

Rahimi (deceased) v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP)

1st January, 2015

View a report into the arbitrary detention case of Rahimi (deceased) v Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Immigration and Border Protection.

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'Help Way Earlier!'- transforming child justice for safety & wellbeing

Tell Me ��鱨վ: ��鱨վ in immigration detention in Nauru

Issues paper: Employment discrimination against Australians with disability

Issues paper: Employment discrimination against older Australians

Know your rights: Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanders (2014)

Resilient Individuals: Sexual Orientation Gender Identity & Intersex Rights 2015

Annual Report 2013-14

��鱨վ’s Commissioners and Guardians Communique 20–21 May 2015

War and Peace: The ANZAC spirit and human rights

National prevalence survey of age discrimination in the workplace 2015

Info and Communications Technology in the A.P.S – the need for change

Rights & Responsibilities Consultation Report

Supporting young children's rights

National Inquiry into ��鱨վ in Immigration Detention (2014)

Close the Gap - Progress and priorities report 2015

Rahimi (deceased) v Commonwealth of Australia (DIBP)

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