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Age Discrimination6 September 2024Publication
Empowering futures: a report on enduring powers of attorney (2024)
A national survey on the understanding and use of financial enduring powers of attorney (2024). -
Age Discrimination9 September 2024Media Release
New report recommends Australia urgently creates nationally consistent enduring powers of attorney laws
Age Discrimination Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM has said Commonwealth and State and Territory governments must act now to achieve national consistency in laws governing enduring power of attorney, following the release of a new report. -
Rights and Freedoms20 May 2024Media Release
All-star Vivid show pits leading thinkers against a dystopian future to give festivalgoers the time of their rights
Waleed Aly, Michael Kirby, Jennifer Robinson, Adam Spencer and Nazeem Hussain are part of a unique and compelling show during the upcoming Vivid Sydney festival which will explore how an Australian Human Rights Act could help stop rights going wrong in the future. Part of the Vivid Ideas program, Rights On Time puts a fresh spin on the panel format by locating Nazeem Hussain in a… -
Technology and Human Rights7 August 2023News story
Schools Should Prepare for an AI-Future
Learn more about how ethical AI can be used in schools and education to promote learning and strengthen human rights. -
Children's Rights2 September 2024Media Release
A tragic start to National Child Protection Week
As the launch of National Child Protection Week throws the spotlight on creating better futures where children and young people flourish, the National Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollonds is speaking up for the thousands of children whose futures are bleak because Australian governments do not prioritise their human rights to safety, care and protection. Commissioner Hollonds said: “It was… -
Sex Discrimination15 June 2020News story
Better decisions, better futures
Downloads Better decisions, better futures in PDF Better decisions, better futures in Word PLACEHOLDER DELETE -
Disability Rights15 July 2018Publication
A Future Without Violence (2018)
Quality, safeguarding and oversight to prevent and address violence against people with disability in institutional settings -
Disability Rights1 October 2020Speech
National Disability Strategy Future Forum: Beyond 2020
The Australian Human Rights Commission and the Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health National Disability Strategy: Beyond 2020 webinar September 24, 2020 Ben Gauntlett, Disability Discrimination Commissioner Introductory Address Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests; Good disability policy benefits all Australians, now and in the future. On behalf of the Centre of… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice14 December 2012Speech
Essentials for Social Justice: The Future
I begin by paying my respects to the Kaurna peoples, the traditional owners of the land where we gather today, I pay my respects to your elders, to the ancestors and to those who have come before us, And thank you, for your generous welcome to country for all of us. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
PWD: past, present and future (2011)
I also particularly acknowledge all of my sisters and brothers with disability, and those of you who have been fellow-travellers in the cause of advocating the rights of people with disability in the past, present and future. That should pretty much cover off everyone in the room. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice23 August 2024Media Release
First Nations women let down by native title system
A new report on Australia’s native title system centres the voices of First Nations women to call for significant reform. For the first time since the introduction of the Native Title Act 30 years ago, the experiences of First Nations women have been elevated to show how the system is failing to deliver land justice effectively. “The native title system we have today is not what we had all… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice11 May 2023Media Release
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women to ‘design’ their future with new national approach to First Nations gender justice
Bold new approaches from First Nations Australian women for improving their future have been unveiled at a historic summit in Canberra, including a new National Framework for Action and a new dedicated First Nations Gender Justice Institute at the Australian National University. The new measures have been highlighted at the Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) National Summit, Australia’s… -
Rights and Freedoms3 March 2023Speech
'Reflections on women’s rights – past, present and future’
This presentation draws together reflections on women’s rights from the campaigns by the suffragists and suffragettes of the late 19th century and a consideration on how far we have come in realisation of women’s rights. -
Disability Rights17 January 2019Publication
A future without violence for people with disability - EasyRead (2018)
You have the right to be safe and treated well. Easy Read guide prepared by Council for Intellectual Disability. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice30 August 2024Media Release
Call for urgent child justice reforms following death of teenager in WA youth detention centre
Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss, National Children's Commissioner Anne Hollonds, and Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay have expressed their sadness and disappointment following the death yesterday of a First Nations teenager who was incarcerated in Western Australia’s Banksia Hill youth detention centre. -
27 March 2015Book page
5 Next steps – future areas of work
Based on the outcomes of Rights & Responsibilities 2014, the Human Rights Commissioner will prioritise the following areas of work in relation to human rights over the next four years: Freedom of expression: the Commissioner will continue to explore potential reforms in relation to current laws that restrict the right to freedom of expression. Religious freedom: the Commissioner will… -
14 December 2012Book page
Close the Gap - Part 3 Looking to the Future
I begin by paying my respects to the Jagera and Turrubual peoples, the traditional owners of the land where we gather today. I pay my respects to your elders, to the ancestors and to those who have come before us. And thank you for your generous welcome to country for all of us. -
Disability Rights14 December 2012Speech
Australian Building Codes Board - Building Australia's Future Conference (2011)
Putting out the welcome mat in our new accessible buildings: Where to from here in access developments -
Commission – General10 December 2015Speech
The future of human rights in Australia
AHRC Awards 2015 Thank you Craig for your generosity, for the 4th time, in guiding us through the awards. Well done for your very funny and successful Media Circus. Your honours, distinguished guests, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen. I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation and respect their elders. Today, it really is about you! We are here to… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice9 July 2021Speech
LISTEN. THINK. TRUST. ACT. DIFFERENTLY. Intersectional Movements and a Gender Equal and Just Futures
Panel: Think: Associate Professor Chelsea Watego Trust: Aunty Jackie Huggins, Co-chair Treaty Advancement Committee Act: June Oscar, Social Justice Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission I want to acknowledge the lands we all stand on—all our elders past, present and emerging, wherever we are beaming in from today. Good morning everyone. I am really happy to be here and…
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