Rights and Freedoms
The Australian Human Rights Commission supports a Human Rights Act for Australia. It would set out in a single document the human rights that all people in Australia are entitled to enjoy, and the responsibilities we have to respect the rights of others.
Rights and Freedoms
I would like to open today by reading you part of an e-mail that a work colleague of mine received recently from a young Australian woman in her early twenties, who recently completed her Bachelor of Communications degree from UTS in Sydney. As it happens she also holds Polish citizenship and is currently visiting her grandparents in Warsaw.
Rights and Freedoms
Keynote presentation delivered at the 8th National Conference of the Association for the Welfare of Child Health (AWCH) - "Children on the margin: addressing the health care needs of marginalised children and young people", 11 October 2001, Dr Sev Ozdowski
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The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) makes this submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee in its Inquiry into the Australian Border Force Amendment (Protected Information) Bill 2017 (Cth) (the Bill) introduced by the Australian Government.
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This is a submission from Australia's Human Rights Commissioner, Lorraine Finlay, to the Independent Review of Australia's COVID Policy Response. It a) deals with the impacts of the pandemic and of the pandemic response; b) analyses positive and negative aspects of the response; c) provides...
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I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, and by paying my respects to their elders past and present.
Rights and Freedoms
Before I begin, I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we stand and pay my respects to their elders both past, present and future.
Rights and Freedoms
Although the first Human Rights Commission was established by federal legislation in 1981, ICESCR was not added to its mandate (unlike the ICCPR). The omission was repeated when the new (current) Commission was established in 1986.
Rights and Freedoms
The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) makes this submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) in relation to its ‘Review of AFP Powers’.
