On 12 May 2016, President of the Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, presented a lecture at Curtin University entitled ‘Re-imagining Australia: Human Rights for everyone’. This lecture was recorded and has been made available to the public – it is free to watch at this link, or view below.
Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, will be presenting a public lecture on Thursday, 12 May, as part of a new initiative of Curtin University’s Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE). From the event page: Professor Triggs will examine the current state of play of human rights in Australia. Australia enjoys… Continue Reading Professor Gillian Triggs to present the Inaugural Annual Curtin University Human Rights Public Lecture
Increased Indigenous representation in Federal Parliament is “a significant step forward for our mob and for the nation”, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, said. “I am delighted by the news that Professor Patrick Dodson will stand for the Senate in Western Australia. I am also thrilled by the prospect… Continue Reading Increased Indigenous representation in Parliament welcome | Australian Human Rights Commission
Read current and past issues of the JEDO Newsletter here, and catch up on the social justice work of the Justice, Ecology and Development Office within the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth. Continue Reading
The use of acknowledgement plaques on entrances to homes, churches, workplaces and other buildings, serve to remind Australians of the presence of the Aboriginal people in our land millennia before the making of the Australian colonies and the Australian nation Continue Reading Aboriginal Acknowledgement Plaque Orders