Today marks one year since the Australian Human Rights Commission’s positive duty regulatory powers came into force, aiming ...

The Commission is bringing together representatives from the banking and financial services sector and peak community ...

As the Queensland Government moves to pass its controversial Making Queensland Safer Bill this week, the National Children’s ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission has called for significant reform to the country’s immigration detention system, after ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission has called for significant reform to the country’s immigration detention system, after ...

Australia’s First Nations children deserve a brighter future where governments safeguard their wellbeing, rights and dignity, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie ...

life does the D.D.A. cover? The DDA makes it against the law to discriminate against someone if they ...

President Hugh de Kretser, Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman, and Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay today condemned the suspected arson attack on the Adass Israel synagogue ...

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Ms Katie Kiss has warned that legislation introduced by the Queensland Government late last week was “a devastating step ...

Calls from local First Nations residents to repeal the recently decreed Port Augusta Declared Public Precinct have been backed by Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice ...

Human Rights Commissioner's Foreword: Everyone has the right to seek asylum and be free from persecution, regardless of how or in what country they arrive. It is not illegal to seek asylum. This ...

Forty years ago, the Commonwealth Parliament enacted the first federal human rights and discrimination legislation. The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) was a landmark in Australian race relations ...