To effectively combat racism, it is important to tell the truth about Australia’s history of settler colonialism and migration, and the lasting effects of unfair policies. In its community ...

Artwork courtesy of First Nations Co.This report serves as a foundational document for the development of a National ...

The Queensland Government’s decision to abolish the state’s Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry and repeal its Path to Treaty Act marks a major step backwards for First Nations rights, says Aboriginal ...

Governments must recognise systemic racism and its devastating impacts on Australia’s First Nations peoples and take urgent ...

The Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Anna Cody, has spoken out on the crucial role employers and institutions hold to end the normalisation of harmful behaviour and improve women’s safety amid a ...

Human rights are an inextricable part of our lives. In fact, they are so much a part of every day living that we often take for granted the protection they offer us.

The Australian Human Rights Commission created IncludeAbility to increase meaningful employment opportunities for people with disability, and to close the gap between people in the workforce with and ...

This report is a tribute to the strength and struggles of many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by forcible removal. We acknowledge the hardships they endured and the ...

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

In 1991, Nicholas Toonen, a homosexual man from Tasmania, sent a communication to the Human Rights Committee. At that time homosexual sex was criminalized in Tasmania. Toonen argued that this violated ...

The Speaking from Experience project is no longer accepting submissions or running consultations. The Commission will publish the final materials in June/July 2025. If you would like to receive the ...