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Sex Discrimination
26 March 2014Book pageChapter 1: Audit approach and methodology
The ADF Audit began at the end of August 2013, one year from the tabling of the ADF Review鈥檚 Report, in accordance with the Terms of Reference. While the ADF Review鈥檚 Report was broad in scope, the approach of the ADF Audit was necessarily more specific. Accordingly, the team conducting the Audit sought to gather evidence of the implementation of the recommendations contained in the ADF鈥 -
Rights and Freedoms
26 March 2014Opinion pieceFree speech is best medicine for the bigotry disease
THE proposed amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act provide the basis for correcting the legal limits of free speech, 颅promoting pluralism, opposing reprehensible racism and highlighting the importance of 颅responsibility. Arguably the most important change is assessing an 18C violation based on 鈥渢he standard of an鈥塷rdinary reasonable member of the Australian community鈥. Inter颅pretations鈥 -
Sex Discrimination
24 March 2014Publication
It starts with us - The Leadership Shadow
Chief Executive Women and the Male Champions of Change share a common goal: to make a significant and sustainable change to the low levels of women in leadership in Australia. We are working together to identify approaches, put them into practice and disseminate those that are successful. -
黑料情报站s Rights
19 March 2014SubmissionEnhancing Online Safety for 黑料情报站
Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Outline of children鈥檚 rights in the context of bullying, including cyber-bullying 3 The Commission鈥檚 existing work on bullying and cyber-bullying 4 Other emerging issues 5 Education and increasing public awareness 1 Introduction The 黑料情报站 (the Commission) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Department of -
Education25 February 2014Publication
Human Rights Examples for the Australian Curriculum
Human Rights Examples for the Australian Curriculum (English, History, Geography, Science and Maths 鈥 Foundation to Year 10) -
Rights and Freedoms
24 February 2014Opinion piece
Why I鈥檒l take the approach of a classical liberal to human rights
As Human Rights Commissioner I want to promote a culture of rights and responsibilities so that every Australian understands their rights and confidently stands up for them against government encroachment. Because human rights are a political construct, there are numerous ways that they can be approached. Each perspective weights the relative integrity of rights when they come into conflict鈥 -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
23 February 2014Opinion pieceWe can't 'outsource' our moral obligations to these people
Events on Manus Island have graphically and tragically brought to the attention of the Australian public the inappropriateness of the current arrangements for the regional processing of asylum seekers. I have been troubled by the loss of life and the injury that has occurred on Manus Island over this past week, even as we wait for further information about what exactly has occurred. I am鈥 -
Complaint Information Service20 February 2014Webpage
Act Information Sheets
Explore a range of discrimination complaints made to the Commission related to sex, race, age, disability and discrimination in employment and occupation. -
Complaint Information Service20 February 2014Webpage
The Complaint Process
The complaint process is simple, free and flexible. The Commission is an independent third party that investigates complaints about discrimination and human rights breaches. -
Commission - General
17 February 2014WebpageHuman Rights Commissioner, Mr Tim Wilson
Learn about Tim Wilson, who was Human Rights Commissioner from 2014 until 2016 and was known to proudly defend universal and individual human rights.