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Asylum Seekers and Refugees21 October 2013Publication
Casenote: FKAG v Australia and MMM v Australia
The UN Human Rights Committee has found that the indefinite detention of 46 refugees with adverse security assessments was arbitrary and amounted to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees3 February 2016Publication
The health and well-being of children in immigration detention
The health and well-being of children in immigration detention Report to the Australian Human Rights Commission Monitoring Visit to Wickham Point Detention Centre, Darwin, NT October 16 th – 18 th 2015 Professor Elizabeth Elliott AM MD MPhil MBBS FRACP FRCPCH FRCP Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney Consultant Paediatrician, The Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network… -
14 December 2012Book page
Bringing them Home - Penny & Murray story
In 1958, whilst our family [Penny aged 10, her brother Trevor 11, Murray 7, sister Judy 6 and baby Olive was five or six weeks old, their mother and step-father] were all resident at a house situated in Cairns, my mother's capacity to look after her children in a fit and proper manner became the subject of challenge within the Cairns District Children's Court. This action was initiated by Sgt Syd… -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
Attached please find my submission to this Inquiry. It expresses my concerns as a private citizen with the current detention and treatment of refugee children. -
14 December 2012Book page
Commission Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
1. I am registered as a teacher in South Australia [number removed] and hold a Batchelor of Education specialising in Junior Primary/Primary education. These are my understandings and opinions based on my observations and experiences in Woomera IRPC. -
Commission – General14 December 2012Speech
President Speech: A human rights-based approach to immigrant women’s issues (2011)
I would like to begin by joining other speakers in acknowledging the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, the traditional owners of the land upon which we meet. I pay my respects to their elders, both past and present. -
Commission – General14 December 2012Speech
International Human Rights Day Address
In keeping with the theme of today's awards, I want to welcome you all here to celebrate our local champions, many of whom are with us as nominees for the 2004 Human Rights Medal and Human Rights Awards. -
14 December 2012Book page
It's About Time - Chapter 4
4.1 Introduction 4.2 The key issues 4.3 Workplace relations framework 4.4 Recognising the relationship between paid work and caring work 4.5 Certainty and flexibility in the workplace 4.6 Structural change to support gender and carer equality 4.7 The need for expanded legal rights 4.8 Workplace culture and use of family-friendly policies 4.9 A life cycle approach to work and a universal approach… -
Disability Rights19 March 2015Speech
6th National Disability Summit - Keynote speech: Disability Discrimination Commissioner
To begin, I would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we are meeting. I pay my respects to their Elders, past and present, and the Elders from other communities who may be here today. Thank you for inviting me to speak at the 6th National Disability Summit. -
Disability Rights22 March 2024Webpage
The IncludeAbility Employer Network - Herbert Smith Freehills
Discover IncludeAbility Employer Network member Herbert Smith Freehills’ support of employees with a disability or caring for someone with a disability. -
14 December 2012Book page
Bringing them Home - Chapter 8
The general opinion of station people is that it is a mistake to take these children out of the bush. They say that the aboriginal mothers are fond of their children and in their own way look after them and provide for them and that when they grow up they are more easily absorbed and employed than those who have been taken out of their natural environment and removed to towns. -
Commission – General14 December 2012Speech
Human rights education in a time of terrorism (2003)
In the newspapers of recent weeks we seem constantly confronted with similarly miserable and distressing events – a mortar attack on CARE Australia’s office in Baghdad; attacks on a synagogue and the British consulate in Istanbul; more suicide bombings in Israel. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
Celebration of the commencement of the Premises Standards (2011)
On behalf of the Australian Human Rights Commission I would like to welcome you to this event to mark the commencement of the Disability (Access to Premises - buildings) Standards (Premises Standards). -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
Providing Access to All
Some of us are women and some are men; some of us brought new names and accents in recent decades and some of us have Australian ancestry reaching back tens of thousands of years; and some of us have one or more disabilities. -
Complaint Information Service14 December 2012Webpage
Understanding and preparing for conciliation - Unlawful Discrimination
Learn how the Commission uses the process of conciliation when addressing complaints made by the public regarding incidences of unlawful discrimination. -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 2001: Summary
1. Ten Years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 2. Mutual Obligation, Welfare Reform and Indigenous Participation: A Human Rights Perspective -
Rights and Freedoms17 January 2019Media Release
Winners announced - 2018 Human Rights Awards
The Honourable Justice Peter McClellan AM and Chrissie Foster have won the prestigious 2018 Human Rights Medal for their enormous contribution to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Chrissie Foster has long campaigned for justice for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse and Justice McClellan led the five-year Royal Commission. Accepting the Medal… -
Disability Rights21 March 2024Webpage
The IncludeAbility Employer Network - The ABC
IncludeAbility Employer Network member ABC knows that ensuring greater diversity and inclusion is not only the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do. -
5 February 2015Book page
13 Continuing impacts on children once released
13.1 How are children faring once released? 13.2 Continuing impacts of detention on infants and preschoolers 13.3 Continuing impacts of detention on primary school aged children 13.4 Continuing impacts of detention on teenagers 13.5 Ongoing impacts of long term detention 13.6 Findings regarding the continuing impacts of detention Both my children are nervous. They were scared of everything… -
Rights and Freedoms14 December 2012Speech
"Asylum Seekers": Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM (2002)
Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the Worimi people who are the traditional owners of this land and a timely reminder that we are all immigrants to this vast continent.
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