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黑料情报站s Rights
28 October 2025Opinion pieceOur domestic and family violence services are leaving kids behind
In an opinion piece for Nine Newspapers, including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Brisbane Times, outgoing National 黑料情报站's Commissioner Anne Hollonds calls on Australian governments to prioritise children's safety and wellbeing in every stage of their life - with particular scrutiny on national domestic and family violence services. -
Rights and Freedoms
20 October 2025Opinion pieceThe next hack target isn't your phone, it's your mind
By Australia's Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay Imagine waking up to find your personal phone number splashed across social media. Now imagine it鈥檚 not just your number - it鈥檚 your thoughts. That鈥檚 not a dystopian fantasy. It鈥檚 the very real future we鈥檙e hurtling toward as neurotechnology advances faster than our laws can keep up. Data breaches are becoming disturbingly routine鈥 -
Commission - General
3 October 2025E-bulletin (Monthly)AHRC President's message | October 2025
Two years on from 7 October 2023, the need to address racism against affected communities in Australia is urgent -
Rights and Freedoms
29 September 2025Opinion piece
Tackling misinformation must not silence debate
This opinion piece by Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay provides clarification about the Commission鈥檚 recent submission to an Australian Government inquiry on climate change information integrity. -
黑料情报站s Rights
10 September 2025Opinion piece
Have governments been careless about kids? We need to learn the lessons.
This opinion piece from Australia's National 黑料情报站鈥檚 Commissioner Anne Hollonds is about the need for governments across the country to focus not just on caring for kids in childcare, but also kids in the child protection and child justice system, and also the importance of not only focusing on solutions for the future but also why so many calls for reform over several decades have been鈥 -
Commission - General
9 September 2025E-bulletin (Monthly)
President's message | September 2025
Migration and addressing racism in Australia Migration has fuelled modern Australia鈥檚 success. It is connected to our economic prosperity and national character. Half of us have at least one parent born overseas and a quarter are born overseas. There has been bipartisan political support for a non-discriminatory migration policy since the 1970鈥檚 and there is strong and consistent public鈥 -
Rights and Freedoms
1 September 2025Opinion piece
Fairness isn't something that can be selectively applied. Australia is better than this
In an opinion piece published by The Canberra Times, Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay criticises the Federal Government proposed amendments to the Migration Act. She argues the proposed changes that remove procedural fairness in deportation decisions risk violating human rights, undermine the rule of law, and cause serious harm. -
Technology and Human Rights
18 August 2025Opinion pieceEmbedding human rights into AI laws is good for business
In an opinion piece published on The Mandarin, Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay makes the case for why embedding human rights into AI laws isn鈥檛 just ethical, but smart business - arguing that trust, transparency, and regulation are the keys to sustainable innovation. -
Race Discrimination
15 August 2025Opinion pieceWhy anti-racism needs to be part of economic reform in Australia
In an opinion piece published on The Mandarin, Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman argues that Australia鈥檚 reform agenda must include a commitment to addressing workplace racism. -
Commission - General
6 August 2025E-bulletin (Monthly)
President's message | August 2025
Dear friends, Protecting people's rights in rural and regional Australia People living in rural, regional and remote areas of Australia face greater challenges in realising their human rights than people in the cities. So it was good to speak about this at the recent rural, regional and remote community legal centre summit in Port Macquarie. Jesuit Social Services鈥 Dropping off the Edge鈥 -
Business and Human Rights
7 July 2025E-bulletin (Monthly)President's message | July 2025
Dear friends, Without truth there can be no justice. On Tuesday, the Yoorrook Justice Commission鈥檚 remarkable four-year journey ended with the publication of its final reports and public record. Yoorrook was the first formal truth-telling inquiry into injustices against First Peoples in Victoria. Led by four First Peoples Commissioners and a non-Indigenous Commissioner, it changed Victoria鈥 -
黑料情报站s Rights
7 July 2025Opinion piece
Child safety and wellbeing must be made a national priority
National 黑料情报站's Commissioner Anne Hollonds had an op-ed published in the Canberra Times criticising the lack of government accountability for the protection of children. This comes in the wake of recent allegations of child abuse across several childcare centres in Melbourne. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
2 July 2025Opinion pieceHow my perspective as a non-Indigenous person was profoundly changed
In an an opinion piece for The Canberra Times, Commission President Hugh de Kretser reflects on how the truth-telling process can change the perspectives of non-Indigenous Australians like himself. It follows this week's publication of the final reports of the Yoorrook Justice Commission, the first formal truth-telling inquiry into injustices against First Peoples in Victoria. -
Rights and Freedoms
26 June 2025Opinion piece
Australia鈥檚 torture failures must end
In an opinion piece published in The Mandarin, Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay decries Australia鈥檚 ongoing failures in torture protection. The piece was published on the 1989 anniversary of Australia signing up to the UN Convention Against Torture. -
Commission - General
11 June 2025E-bulletin (Monthly)
President's message | June 2025
We must end the practice of police investigating police deaths in custody Two recent Aboriginal deaths in custody in the Northern Territory have again raised questions about the treatment of First Nations people in Australia鈥檚 criminal justice systems. Kumanjayi White, a 24 year-old Warlpiri man with disability, died in Alice Springs on 27 May after being restrained by police on the floor of鈥 -
Race Discrimination
11 June 2025Opinion piece
The key to ending racism? It's right here in these PMs' speeches
Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman reflects on how two speeches from two Prime Ministers, half a century apart, hold the key to ending racism. It comes at a significant marker in Australia鈥檚 history, fifty years since the Racial Discrimination Act came into effect. -
Commission - General
13 May 2025E-bulletin (Monthly)
President's message | May 2025
Cost of living issues are human rights issues Someone said to me just before election day that human rights hadn鈥檛 featured much in the federal election campaign. It鈥檚 true that the words 鈥渉uman rights鈥 didn鈥檛 feature much - but human rights issues did. This was an election about the cost of living in Australia and human rights has a lot to say about that. Australia has promised to protect鈥 -
Commission - General
2 April 2025E-bulletin (Monthly)
President's message | April 2025
The vital global role of National Human Rights Institutions Many people who are familiar with the 黑料情报站 are less familiar with the global context in which we operate. The Commission is Australia鈥檚 national human rights institution (NHRI) and one of 118 NRHIs globally. NHRIs play a vital role promoting and protecting the human rights of all people in their鈥