Publications

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Close the Gap (2020)

We nurture our culture for our future, and our culture nurtures us. A report prepared by the Lowitja Institute for the Close the Gap Steering Committee | March 2020 Executive Summary With this report — We nurture our culture for our future, and our culture nurtures us — we have sought to reflect the...

Sex Discrimination

Respect@Work: Sexual Harassment National Inquiry Report (2020)

Workplace sexual harassment is prevalent and pervasive: it occurs in every industry, in every location and at every level, in Australian workplaces.

Children's Rights

Children’s Rights Report 2019

The Children’s Rights Report 2019 — In Their Own Right tells the story of how well children’s rights are protected and promoted across Australia.

Technology and Human Rights

Discussion Paper: Human Rights and Technology

Learn more about protecting and promoting human rights from the risks of AI, to better develop and deploy ethical AI.

Children's Rights

Children’s Rights in Australia: a scorecard

This scorecard tells the story of how well children’s rights are protected and promoted across Australia. It tells us where we are doing ok, where we should be doing much better, and where we do not yet know enough to make an assessment of our performance.

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Use of force in immigration detention

The issue of the use of force in immigration detention has been raised in a range of complaints against the Department of Home Affairs received by the Commission. This report deals thematically with 14 complaints.

Commission – General

Annual Report 2018-2019

This Annual Report sets out the performance of the Australian Human Rights Commission in the 2018–19 financial year.

Rights and Freedoms

Discussion paper: A model for positive human rights reform

This paper outlines what our current system of human rights protections looks like, how it is and isn’t effective in ensuring that government respects, protects and fulfils our human rights, why reforming the current system is critical, and options for reform.