Commission welcomes Palm Island decision
In one of the most significant racial discrimination cases in Australia’s history, the Queensland Government has agreed to apologise and deliver a $30 million settlement to residents of Palm Island for racial discrimination linked to riots in 2004....
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Imprisonment rates of Indigenous women a national shame
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO has described the imprisonment rates of Indigenous women as a national disgrace.Commissioner Oscar delivered the Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture at the University of...
Wednesday 2 May 2018
2018 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture, University of Western Australia
AcknowledgmentsGood evening everyone. I would like to acknowledge the Noongar people the custodians of this land, and all their elders, past, present and emerging.Yaningi warangira ngindaji yuwa muwayi ingirranggu, Wurundjeri yani U. Balangarri...
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Time is Right for Change: Sex Discrimination Commissioner visits UNE
The Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins has visited the University of New England (UNE) to speak to students and staff about the review into residential colleges.In response to the landmark Change the course report, UNE has engaged the...
Thursday 19 April 2018
Letter to the editor
Miranda Devine (Opinion, 18 April) suggests that migrants must, out of gratitude to this country, stay quiet about racism. This is disappointing. It implies people must put up and shut up.Rejecting racism does not amount to being unpatriotic. It's...
Thursday 19 April 2018
RightsTalk: from fax machines to social media
Technology is creating new challenges to our rights but it is also a “democratising tool” that can facilitate positive change, says Human Rights Watch’s international executive director Kenneth Roth.The Australian Human Rights Commission hosted Mr...
Wednesday 18 April 2018
Letter to the editor
Judith Sloan (Opinion, 17 April) questions the methodology of our Leading for Change report on cultural diversity and leadership.The methodology used in the report is consistent with academic and industry studies of cultural background, as well as...
Wednesday 18 April 2018
Ten thousand Australians to be surveyed about sexual harassment
The number of people involved in the world-leading survey on sexual harassment has been significantly expanded from 2,000 to 10,000 participants.The Australian Human Rights Commission has undertaken regular surveys on workplace sexual harassment...
Friday 13 April 2018
Indigenous Women’s Voices heard across Queensland
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO has spent the past week in Brisbane, Logan and Mt Isa meeting with Indigenous women and girls as a part of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) Project....
Friday 13 April 2018
Cultural diversity report launched at University of Sydney
University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor Dr Michael Spence and Race Discrimination Commissioner Dr Tim Soutphommasane launched the Australian Human Rights Commission report Leading for Change: A blueprint for cultural diversity and inclusive leadership...
Thursday 12 April 2018