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Community update: COVID-19 (April 2020)
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UN Human Rights Commissioner speaks out
ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ conference Free and Equal: An Australian Conversation on Human Rights Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 8 October 2019 President of the ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ, Rosalind Croucher and fellow Commissioners Mr Les Malezer...
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Free and Equal: An Australian Conversation on Human Rights
‘Free and Equal: An Australian Conversation on Human Rights’ 8 October 2019 Opening Remarks Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM President, ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ Check against delivery Your Excellency, Dr Michele Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Australian...
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Commissioners call for compassionate approach for Tamil family
Australian ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ’s Commissioner Megan Mitchell and Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow have today written to Minister David Coleman, calling for an urgent and compassionate resolution for the Tamil family detained in immigration detention on Christmas Island. “Given their connection to...
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Free + Equal: Australian Conversation on Human Rights Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM President, ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ Check against delivery Your Excellency, Dr Michele Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ Commissioners—Dr Ben Gauntlett, Disability...
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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...
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Urgent call for seriously ill Nauru children to be transferred
The ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ is calling on the Federal Government to urgently transfer any seriously unwell asylum seeker children – and their families – from Nauru to Australia. The Commission notes several recent cases where the Federal Court of Australia has consistently found the...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Current and former Social Justice Commissioners offer pathway forward on constitutional recognition
Rights and Freedoms
Human Rights Awards 2017
Acknowledgments Thank you, Aunty Norma Ingram, for your very warm welcome to country. The ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ is honoured to be here today on the ancestral lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. I pay my respects to elders past, present and future and warmly welcome any...
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Disability Rights
Burdekin: NATIONAL INQUIRY
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the launch of the report of the national inquiry into the human rights of people with mental illness. This report is the result of extensive research; public hearings in all States and Territories; and oral evidence and written submissions from over 1300 witnesses. I have been extremely fortunate to have the assistance of two commissioners with a long standing interest in the area of mental health - Dame Margaret Guilfoyle and Mr David Hall.
Rights and Freedoms
Statement on Mandatory Sentencing
This is a rare event for the Human Rights Commission - a media conference convened by the President with other Commissioners. I can recall it occurring only once before in the Commission's history. The fact that we are doing this today reflects the seriousness of the issue we are discussing.
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