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Acting National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander �����鱨վ and Young People, Lil Gordon, and National �����鱨վ’s Commissioner Anne Hollonds, have both expressed serious concern about proposed changes to child protection legislation in the Northern Territory. They believe the changes will undermine basic protections for First Nations children to be able to grow up with…

Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman has condemned two antisemitic incidents on synagogues over the weekend in the New South Wales suburbs of Allawah and Newtown.

The initial stages of a study about racism at Australian universities being undertaken by the �����鱨վ have revealed a range of concerns from both students and staff in relation to their experience of racism on university campuses.

Today marks one year since the �����鱨վ’s positive duty regulatory powers came into force, aiming to eliminate sexual harassment and discrimination in Australian workplaces.

As the Queensland Government moves to pass its controversial Making Queensland Safer Bill this week, the National �����鱨վ’s Commissioner is calling on the Australian Government to affirm its commitment to the human rights of Australia’s children, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Australia’s First Nations children deserve a brighter future where governments safeguard their wellbeing, rights and dignity, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss said today on International Human Rights Day. “Today on Human Rights Day, I reflect on what a devastating year this has been for our First Nations kids. Their human rights have been ignored…

The �����鱨վ has called for significant reform to the country’s immigration detention system, after a new report into the treatment of women in detention found their rights, safety and wellbeing are being widely overlooked. These failures, it found, are compounding the risk to women of harassment, violence, and ill health.

President Hugh de Kretser, Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman, and Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay today condemned the suspected arson attack on the Adass Israel synagogue in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Ms Katie Kiss has warned that legislation introduced by the Queensland Government late last week was “a devastating step backwards for First Nations rights and a blow to respectful relationships between the state government and Indigenous Queenslanders.” The Queensland Parliament repealed the Path to Treaty Act 2023 at…

Calls from local First Nations residents to repeal the recently decreed Port Augusta Declared Public Precinct have been backed by Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.