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Commission – General
April 2024: Commission news | President's letter
Our Free + Equal project at the Castan Centre, conference and Rights On Time panel show in Sydney in June and new commissioners start.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Katie Kiss commences as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Commissioner June Oscar welcomes Institute funding
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar welcomed the Commonwealth’s funding of the new Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute for First Nations Gender Justice at the Australian National University. The Institute is the first of its kind in the world and will bring...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Commission celebrates official launch of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO has launched a dedicated Institute to elevate the voices and solutions of First Nations women and girls – the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute for First Nations gender justice. The Australian-first Institute, housed at the...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Commission welcomes new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
Commission – General
March 2024: Commission news | President's letter
Commissioner June Oscar AO finishes her term as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Social Justice Commissioner early next month. Friday 8 March marks International Women’s Day, and Sex Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody will attend the 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York.
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AHRC welcomes announcement of National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ’s Commissioner
The ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ welcomes the Federal Government’s announcement today that a new position will be created for a National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ’s Commissioner. Advocates and peak bodies representing Australia’s First Nations children have long sought a...
Commission – General
Australia’s human rights champions put social justice and equality centre stage
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Now is the time to act. The referendum must not lead to despair, but to a search for new ways to secure justice
This opinion piece by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO, appeared in The Guardian Australia on Sunday 29 October 2023 The day the proposal for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice was rejected by the majority of my fellow Australians will be...
ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ's Rights
National ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ’s Commissioner urges governments to monitor child rights
Australia’s National ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ's Commissioner Anne Hollonds is urging governments and service providers to implement a new national toolkit to help improve laws and policy decisions and monitor their impacts on children.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Commissioners distressed by death of boy after being detained in Perth prison
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO, and National ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ's Commissioner Anne Hollonds have issued a joint statement following the death of a First Nations teenager who had been held in a youth detention unit at the Casuarina adult prison in Perth...
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