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Disability Rights

Willing to Work - employment and Australians with disability

Read the report on employment and Australians with disabilities.

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

Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015 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 and Refugees

Summary factsheet - The Forgotten ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ: National Inquiry into ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ in Immigration Detention 2014

The Forgotten ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ: National Inquiry into ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ 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

ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ in immigration detention: statements by health professional organisations

Joint statement by 15 peak health professional bodies: ‘[we] call on the Government to immediately release all children and their families from immigration detention in Australia and Nauru...our organisations represent a wide range of health professionals who have seen, first-hand, the devastating...

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ in immigration detention: statements by the United Nations

2015 United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: ‘...by failing to provide adequate detention conditions; end the practice of detention of children; and put a stop to the escalating violence and tension at the Regional Processing Centre...

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

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

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...

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 ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Read the...

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...