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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...

Cover of the Mornington Island Review Report from April 1995 by the Race Discrimination Commissioner and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, with an orange background.
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.
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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...
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Our Homeless ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ

Report of the National Inquiry into Youth Homelessness In 1987, after consulting with a wide range of individuals and organisations attempting to assist homeless children, analysing current policy directions and surveying the available literature, the Commission decided that there was a clear need...
Cover of the Toomelah Report, issued by Human Rights Australia in June 1988, focusing on the problems and needs of Aboriginal people living on the NSWÅ“Queensland border.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Toomelah Report (1988)

The Toomelah community of five hundred Aboriginal people endures appalling living conditions which amount to a denial to them of the most basic rights taken for granted by most other groups in society, and by other Australian communities of similar size. Their houses are substandard and overcrowded...
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Rights and Freedoms

Human Rights for Australia

A survey of human rights literature and developments and a select bibliography (1986). This publication was prepared for the former Human Rights Commission (1981-86) The former Commission was a distinct statubody body from the ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ. It should not be assumed that the...
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Education

1981-86 Human Rights Commission education resources

Education resources linked from this page were produced by the former Human Rights Commission established under the Human Rights Commission Act 1981. This Commission ceased to exist in 1986 pursuant to a sunset clause in its legislation and was replaced by the current Commission. Resources linked...
Race Discrimination

Guide to the Racial Hatred Act

The Racial Hatred Act, introduced in October 1995, extends the coverage of the RDA so that people can complain to the ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ about racially offensive or abusive behaviour. It aims to strike a balance between two valued rights: the right to communicate freely and the right...
Legal

ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ - Law Society Journal

ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ Legal articlespublished in the NSW Law Society Journal The legal section of the Commission publishes regular articles on human rights law, designed for legal practitioners. These appear in NSW Law Society Journal and other Law Society publications across Australia...
Commission - General

Annual Report 2010-2011

Annual Report 2010–2011 Complete Report Download Complete Annual Report in PDF [7 MB] Download Annual Report in Word [696 KB] Financial statements (Excel) [430 KB] Contents ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ the Commission Our functions Highlights of the year President’s statement Commissioners’ statements Bios of president and...

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