Two of Australia’s most famous legal eagles are set to team up to prosecute the case for an Australian Human Rights Act at an ...

Join leaders, experts and advocates from across Australia for a historic national forum that will pave the way for a much-needed overhaul of Australia’s human rights framework, including the ...

An inspection report by the Australian Human Rights Commission has found that a high-security immigration detention centre in Western Australia was, in part, “no longer fit for purpose”, and raised ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission conducts ongoing monitoring of conditions in detention to ensure that Australia’s immigration detention system complies with our obligations under international ...

Report into arbitrary interference with family and deprivation of the right to enter one’s own country ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission, in partnership with Intopia, is updating its Disability Discrimination Act Web Advisory Note. The current version of the Note (version 4.1) is from 2014 and can ...

and access to government services and information. Australia's hosting of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2000 provided interesting tests of progress in moving towards a society that includes ...

All people are entitled to protection of their human rights, including the right to seek asylum, regardless of how or where they arrive in Australia. Australia has ratified the Convention Relating to ...

with this document is that it is non-binding. It does not create legal obligations on governments to implement it. It does not have the same provision for reporting and accountability built of us by ...

begin by acknowledging the Kaurna people on whose ancestral land we meet today.

(These are speaking notes used by the Commissioner at a series of events in all Australian capitals as well as Alice Springs through March 2003. Speeches as delivered included acknowledgement of State ...

Keynote speech at the 6th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Health Conference in Cairns, May 2007. Senator Scullion, distinguished guests and participants, can I begin by ...