Tag: Australian Human Rights Commission

Human Rights Commission report says ageism remains the most accepted form of prejudice in Australia, with 63% having experienced it.

Rights groups welcome the decision to temporarily release the Murugappan family from detention on Christmas Island so they can reunite in WA.

Commission believes extreme sanctions against Aussies returning home from Covid-wracked India are “extraordinary” and may be discriminatory.

Tim Wilson was allegedly promised Professor Gillian Triggs' job as President of the Human Rights Commission, writes Tess Lawrence.

The shadow attorney-general has requested a police investigation into whether the attorney-general’s office made a corrupt attempt to induce Gillian Higgs to quit the Human Rights Commission.

Immigration and Border Protection Minister Scott Morrison this week announced that most children in immigration detention camps who are under the age of ten, and their families, will be released into the Australian society by the end of this year.

Human Rights Watch has slammed Australia's treatment of asylum seekers in its annual report.