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Executive Summary After 10 years, and despite closing the gap being a national bipartisan priority, it is clear that Australian governments at all levels are, in key respects, failing Australia’s First Peoples. In February 2016, the Close the Gap Campaign (the Campaign) welcomed the Prime Minister’s words at his first Closing the Gap report to Parliament where he said ‘we have to stay the…

The ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ is very pleased to launch Missing out: The business case for customer diversity in partnership with Deloitte Australia.

In the second half of 2016, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins travelled to every state and territory to learn about Australia’s progress towards gender equality.

This report identifies the steps needed to expand domestic and family death review mechanisms to all Australian jurisdictions and to ensure that recommendations made to Federal Government agencies in death review processes are actioned. Australian data on domestic and family violence death is limited. While a number of Australian entities collect data on homicide, there is no nation-wide…

Every year, the National ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ's Commissioner provides a child-friendly version of her ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ’s Rights Report. This is the child friendly version of the 2016 report, which looked into the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) in the context of children and young people detained in youth justice centres or adult facilities.

This report outlines work the National ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ's Commissioner has undertaken throughout 2015-16 to promote the human rights of children and young people in Australia. The main focus of the report is the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) in the context of children and young people detained in youth justice centres or adult facilities

As Acting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Deputy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, we are pleased to present the Social Justice and Native Title Report 2016.

Explore the report into a complaint of discrimination in employment on the basis of a criminal record in the case of AW v Data#3 Limited.

Review the case of Ms. Bakhtiari and Master Reza Bakhtiari v. Commonwealth of Australia.

Read the publication 2016 AUSHRC 107.