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Responses to the Report Government Response HEREOC Inquiry into Children in Immigration Report Tabled - Joint Press Release - Senator Amanda Vanstone, Minister for Immigration with Attorney-General the Hon. Philip Ruddock MP (13 May 2004) Media Releases Amnesty International: Prime Minister Urged to Release All Children from Immigration Detention (13 May 2004) Australian Democrats: HREOC

Back to Table of Contents Abbreviations ABS - Australian Bureau of Statistics ACIRRT - Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training ACTU - Australian Council of Trade Unions ADAM - Agreements Database and Monitor AIFS - Australian Institute of Family Studies AIRC - Australian Industrial Relations Commission ALSS - Australian Living Standards Study AMA - Australian Medical…

Learn about the consultations on valuing parenthood, which discuss the importance of supporting parents and families.

We needed more classrooms to run the classes so as to provide adequate contact time for both children and adults. To compensate for the lack of classrooms we used the messes and at times recreational rooms in the compounds. This didn’t provide nearly enough teaching venues and was really inappropriate as a teaching environment. Over the whole centre the total number of allocated classrooms …

Mr Pearce shared the experiences of Indigenous people in Western Australia to highlight the continuing disadvantage and ultimately prompt participants to think about how far we still have to go before Indigenous Australians can fully exercise their human rights. Examples of the inequality experienced include the high rates of imprisonment in the adult and juvenile justice systems, low levels of…

The issue of whether Australia's 'treatment ' of Indigenous people meets its international human rights obligations has been the subject of an ongoing dialogue taking place between Australia, Non-Government Organisations and UN treaty committees throught 1999 and 2000.

We, the Solidarity Committee of the Marist Brothers Province of Melbourne, wish to make the following submission to the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention.

We, the Social Action Committee of the CLRCV, wish to make a submission to the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention. Our message is simple. We believe that immigration detention is profoundly bad for children.

back to contents It's About Time - Launch Liz Broderick (Blake Dawson Waldron), Wendy Harmer, the Hon. John von Doussa QC Charles 'Bud' Tingwell AM, Wendy Harmer, the Hon. John von Doussa QC , Liz Broderick (Blake Dawson Waldron) the Hon. John von Doussa QC, President HREOC Wendy Harmer Charles 'Bud' Tingwell AM People at the launch 29 January, 2008 .

Murray Hunt is currently Legal Advisor to the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights. He was a key founding member of Matrix Chambers, London and has specialised in human rights law and public law.

In 2001 Rhonda Kelly and Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh were commissioned by HREOC to undertake a report on Corporate Social Responsibility, Agreement Making and native title in Australia. This Report includes a substantial amount of information on a range of agreements from different parts of Australia and one agreement from Canada. Some of that information is confidential.