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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
25 October 2024Project
Informing The Agenda Consultations
Katie Kiss commenced in the role as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner on 3 April 2024. To ensure the voices of First Nations people across Australia help form the agenda for the term, the Commissioner is conducting a national listening tour to hear from First Nations people about how we move forward after the Voice Referendum, how to progress and utilise… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
11 October 2024Webpage
Informing The Agenda Consultations
Informing the Agenda Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioners Term 2024-2029 Katie Kiss commenced in the role as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner on 3 April 2024. To ensure the voices of First Nations people across Australia help form the agenda for the term, the Commissioner is conducting a national listening tour to hear from… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
24 July 2024Webpage
Informing the Agenda Project - Your Submission
Privacy Collection Notice / Project Overview / About the Project Please note we only collected individual submissions from individuals aged 18 years old or over. All sectors of the community were welcome to contribute, however, submission and survey contributions are now closed. To complete a submission, participants completed one of the following options: Option 1: Informing the Agenda… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
24 July 2024Webpage
Informing the Agenda - Privacy Collection Notice
Project Overview / About the Project / Your Submission The Australian Human Rights Commission ( Commission) collects and handles personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), the Archives Act 1983 (Cth) and our Privacy Policy. By providing responses to our questions as part of this submission process and providing your submission to us, you consent to the Commission -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
1 August 2024Project
Informing the Agenda - Call for Submissions
The Australian Human Rights Commission invites submissions from First Nations Peoples to inform the Social Justice Commissioner's agenda on key issues affecting their lives. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
24 July 2024Webpage
Informing the Agenda Project - About the Project (Participant Information Sheet)
Project Overview / Privacy Collection Statement The Australian Human Rights Commission invites you to contribute to the Informing the Agenda Project. 1. What is the Project about? The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioner is inviting surveys and submissions as well as engaging in face-to-face and two online engagements to contribute to the Informing the Agenda Project ( Project)… -
Commission – General
5 November 2024PublicationAnnual Report 2023-24
Year in Review The Australian Human Rights Commission is a vital national institution which has been promoting justice and human rights for Australians for close to forty years. It is an honour to write this message as the Commission’s new President. In December 2023, the world commemorated 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration lays the foundation for peace -
13 April 2015Book page
Our Agenda
There is no simple way to solve complex human rights issues. From the challenges that face a person with a disability seeking independent living, through to immigration detention policy, the promotion of rights and freedoms must address issues for individuals as well as the need for broader, systemic change. The Commission uses a range of integrated approaches, while also focusing on… -
Commission – General
14 March 2024Speech
‘Bringing rights home—mapping an agenda on human rights in Australia
‘Bringing rights home—mapping an agenda on promoting, protecting and fulfilling human rights in Australia Michael Kirby Justice Oration 2021 Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM President, Australian Human Rights Commission The annual Kirby orations pay tribute to Michael Kirby’s commitment to social justice and human rights and his relationship as friend, colleague and mentor to Victoria… -
Age Discrimination
14 October 2024SpeechAge Discrimination Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald's Press club address
Why Australia Needs Ageism Awareness Day Shared Presentation with Dr Marlene Krasovitsky from EveryAGE Counts Wednesday, 25 September 2024 Check against delivery Introduction Thank you Marlene. It is a great joy to be here at this significant event. This is my third appearance at the National Press Club, but I'm now about 30 years older than the last time, so it's good to be back as an older… -
17 September 2013Book page
Our Agenda
There is no simple way to solve complex human rights issues. From the challenges that face a person with a disability seeking independent living, through immigration detention policy, the promotion of human rights must address issues for individuals as well as the need for broader, systemic change. That is why the Commission uses a range of integrated approaches, while also focussing on… -
17 September 2013Book page
Our Agenda
There is no simple way to solve complex human rights issues. From the challenges that face a person with a disability seeking independent living, through immigration detention policy, the promotion of human rights must address issues for individuals as well as the need for broader, systemic change. That is why the Commission uses a range of integrated approaches, while also focussing on… -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012SpeechAccess on the agenda
Paper delivered by Elizabeth Hastings Disability Discrimination Commissioner 1993-97 at the Creating Accessible Communities Conference Fremantle, 12 November 1996 -
14 December 2012Book page
Our agenda: Commission workplan 2012-2013
Human rights are our entitlements to have our dignity and worth as human beings recognised. We all have them, we all want them recognised in our friends and families, and we all have responsibilities to recognise them in others. -
Commission – General
9 April 2013Publication
Our agenda: Commission workplan 2012-2013
This document provides an overview of the Commission’s major activities for 2012-13. The Commission regularly reviews the ways in which human rights are being observed and respected across Australia. We do this to determine where we can take practical action and make a positive difference. -
Commission – General
19 December 2014Publication
Our Agenda 2014-2015
A guide to the Commission and its activities for 2014-2015 -
Race Discrimination
16 October 2024News story
National consultations show widespread, systemic racism damaging lives
Racism is commonplace and normalised in Australia and can affect almost every part of a person’s daily life, according to a new report for the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). National consultations with diverse and marginalised communities revealed first-hand accounts from hundreds of people who have experienced racism. -
Race Discrimination
16 October 2024Publication
An Anti-Racism Framework: The Perspectives of Multicultural Australia
This report presents the findings and recommendations that followed consultations with more than 1200 people with lived experience of racism from across Australia, enhancing the Commission’s understanding of the prevalence and impact of racism in the country. -
Disability Rights
14 December 2012Speech
Setting an Agenda for Disability and Tourism Research
While there is no section in the Disability Discrimination Act titled "Tourism" every aspect of the development, management and delivery of tourist services are covered by one or more provision within the DDA. -
Rights and Freedoms
10 December 2021Publication
Free and Equal: A reform agenda for federal discrimination laws (2021)
This Position Paper sets out the Australian Human Rights Commission’s proposals for reforming federal discrimination law in Australia. It forms part of the Commission’s Free and Equal project: A National conversation on human rights.