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Every employer has the right to employ someone of their own choosing, based on a person’s suitability for a job. Employers best understand the main requirements of that job and what qualities are needed in an employee to meet those requirements. Yet it is also in employers’ interests to treat job applicants and employees fairly and in accordance with legal obligations.

Media Pack: PROGRESS IN ADDRESSING INDIGENOUS DISADVANTAGE INCOME Gross household income for Indigenous people increased by 11% between 1996 and 2001. In 2001, it was 62% of the rate for non-Indigenous Australians, compared to 64% in 1996. Median gross individual income for Indigenous people increased by 19% from 1996 to 2001, compared to an increase of 28.4% for non-Indigenous people. There…

Welcome to the 2008 edition of Effectively preventing and responding to sexual harassment: A Code of Practice for Employers (Code of Practice). This publication provides practical guidance to employers on how to meet their legal obligations to prevent and manage sexual harassment in the workplace.

Artwork Submitted to the Inquiry The following poems and drawings were submitted to the inquiry. Click on the images below to view larger versions. 1. Drawings provided by a child who has been in detention at Port Hedland IRPC for 22 months. 2. Two poems and a drawing provided by the mother of a child at Woomera IRPC Click here to read: Just for Australian Kind People (1) and Just for…

The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) is a network of youth workers, children's lawyers, policy workers and academics concerned about juvenile justice and working to promote the rights of children and young people in Australia.

Image: Saltwater kids meet Desert kids Young People enjoying what they have learnt from the Desert Acrobats at Ridell Beach, Broome. Photograph by Michael Hutchinson

I have audited the financial statements of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission for the year ended 30 June 2002. The financial Statements comprise:

The National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention refers to the adequacy and appropriateness of Australia’s treatment of child asylum seekers and other children who are, or have been, held in immigration detention, including:

The Protector of Aborigines made the legal guardian of every `aboriginal and half-caste child' whose parents are dead or unknown, or one of whom agrees, until the age of 21. Any two Justices, with the consent of the Governor and one of the parents, may apprentice `any half-caste or other aboriginal child having obtained a suitable age' until the age of 21 provided that `due and reasonable…

When I accessed my file, I found out that the police and the station people at B... Station felt that my mother was looking after me. And they were unsure of why I was being taken away. They actually asked if I could stay there. But because I was light-skinned with a white father, their policy was that I had to be taken away. I was then the third child in a family of, as it turned out to be, 13…

1. The Committee examined the third and fourth periodic reports of Australia (CCPR/C/AUS/99/3 and 4) at its 1855th, 1857th and 1858th meetings, held on 20 and 21 July 2000. At its 1867th meeting on 28 July 2000, the Committee adopted the following concluding observations.