Employers have a positive duty to eliminate, as far as possible, work-related sexual harassment, sexist conduct, sex discrimination and related victimisation. Equality at Work is a national initiative ...

The complainant is Aboriginal and attended the respondent faith-based high school. She alleged there was a general lack of recognition and respect within the school environment for Aboriginal and ...

This episode discusses ageing, purpose, and lifelong activism with human rights advocate Dorothy Hoddinott. Dorothy reflects on using her experience to support refugees and the importance of agency in ...

Learn how Indigenous Peoples have the right to participate in decision-making that affects their rights and through the representatives that they choose. Development and economic and social rights: ...

This report concerns discrimination on the ground of age in employment and occupation. It deals with complaints against two state government employers about the use of age distinctions in the ...

Governments must recognise systemic racism and its devastating impacts on Australia's First Nations peoples and take urgent action to address it, a new report has found. Race Discrimination ...

The data breach concerns attachments uploaded to webforms on the Commission's website. Around 670 documents were made potentially accessible in error. Of these ...

Learn more about how Australia must regulate AI to ensure that it is ethical and that it promotes and protects human rights. The Australian Human Rights Commission (Commission) is pleased to announce ...

The Australian Government and NSW Government recently updated their hate crime laws. This explainer is designed to help readers better understand these changes and the potential human rights ...

What is the Social Media Ban? Age restricted social-media platforms are required by law to take steps to prevent people under 16 years old from having an account on an age-restricted social media ...

This report looks at how ageism affects older Australians when they access healthcare. Many patients told us they feel dismissed, spoken over, or treated as 'just a number'. These attitudes can lead ...

Australia is the only liberal democracy in the world that does not have a national act or charter of rights that explains what people’s basic rights are and how they can be protected. Australia has ...