The Australian Government is undertaking a review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth). The purpose of the review is to consider options to implement the 15 recommendations from the Royal ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) says simplifying and modernising Australia’s Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) will better protect the rights of people with disability.

Back to contents From the bench: landmark human rights cases Why do I love HREOC? Well, I was there at the birth. I watched the Commission grow and accept new challenges every year. Australians used ...

The Child Safe Organisations project prepared a background paper on cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people, to inform work on child safe organisations.

The Australian Human Rights Commission is Australia’s national independent human rights body. One of our main functions is to inquire into and conciliate complaints made under federal human rights and ...

Australia’s National Children’s Commissioner and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner are ...