Sentences with phrase «justice report»

[11] T Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social Justice Report 2009, Australian Human Rights Commission (2009), pp 9 - 55.

The Social Justice Report 2001 identifies the need for a long term financial commitment from governments as necessary to increasing Indigenous participation and control over decision making processes at the community level.

In my role as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, I am required to prepare two reports on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples» human rights issues each year — the Native Title Report and the Social Justice Report.

Text Box 4.11 highlights a unique governance model, the Fitzroy Futures Forum which I examined in detail in the Social Justice Report 2010.

To promote transparency and accountability, I believe that the Attorney - General should be required by legislation to table a response to the Social Justice Report and the Native Title Report in Parliament within a set timeframe.

The Social Justice Report 2010 was my first report as Social Justice Commissioner and contains the agenda for my term.

Community Guide: Social Justice and Native Title Reports Also see Native Title Report 2012 Transmittal Letter 26 October 2012 The Hon Nicola Roxon MP Attorney - General Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 Dear Attorney Social Justice Report 2012 I am pleased to present to you the Social Justice Report 2012 (the Report), which I have prepared in accordance with section 46C (1)(a) of the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth)(AHRC Act)...

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner thanks the following people and organisations for their assistance in preparing the Social Justice Report 2011.

[9] M Gooda, Social Justice Report 2012, Australian Human Rights Commission (2012), ch 2.

[8] M Gooda, Social Justice Report 2011, Australian Human Rights Commission (2011), p 106.

The Attorney - General has always tabled the Native Title Report with the Social Justice Report as a matter of courtesy.

I am pleased to present to you the Social Justice Report 2012 (the Report), which I have prepared in accordance with section 46C (1)(a) of the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth)(AHRC Act).

I expressed concern in the Social justice report 1999 that the gross disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians clearly indicates that the enjoyment of rights in Australia is not provided on a basis of equality or in a non-discriminatory manner.

Briefly, I'm required to provide to the Australian Parliament a Social Justice Report and I also provide a report on Native Title.

Appendix 4 - Elements of a common understanding of free, prior and informed consent: Social Justice Report 2010

The Social Justice Report identifies the warning signs where the current federal system for Indigenous affairs is not capable of addressing these core issues due to significant policy errors.

While the review of the policies and programs undertaken in the NT intervention has just commenced, the Social Justice Report 2007 expresses preliminary concerns with the income management trials in, in terms of the compliance with human rights standards.

Appendix 4 - Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records program — Funding 2008 — 09: Social Justice Report 2009

The review of the NT Emergency Response consider the findings and recommendations of the Social Justice Report 2007 [Recommendation 9];

For a more detailed discussion of these principles see: Social justice report 1999, op.cit, pp 50 - 53; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Native title report 1998, HREOC, Sydney, 1999, Chapters 2 and 3.

The fundamental flaws in the Government's new arrangements in Indigenous affairs My 2006 Social Justice Report documents in some detail what I regard as the most significant problems with the Government's approach to Indigenous affairs.

And so it was in January 2006 that the intellectual foundation of the campaign: achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality within a generation was first published as a chapter in the Social Justice Report 2005 and transmitted to the Australia Parliament.

For discussion on the government's response to the CERD decision see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social Justice Report 2000, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 2001, pp79 - 83; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Native Title Report 2000, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 2001, pp26 - 27.

A more comprehensive analysis of the intervention in the Northern Territory and human rights is set out in my Social Justice Report 2007.

I explained these concepts in last year's Social Justice Report as follows:

Social Justice Report 2003 Download the Social Justice Report 2003 Executive Summary Recommendations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Reconciliation and government accountability Chapter 3: Indigenous participation in decision making - Transforming the relationship between government and Indigenous peoples Chapter four: Responding to petrol sniffing on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands: A Case Study Chapter 5: Addressing family violence in...

The Social Justice Report 2006 described this point as thus:

Appendix 5 - Overview of the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Service Delivery: Social Justice Report 2010

My final Social Justice Report provides some new ideas and recommendations to do this.

Which chapters of the Social Justice Report 2009 did you find most useful?

As the Social Justice Report 2006 states:

For a more detailed analysis of the new arrangements and strategies to improve Indigenous engagement, see Chapters 2 and 3 of the Social Justice Report 2006.

HREOC recommends that the review of the NT Emergency Response consider the findings and recommendations of the Social Justice Report 2007 [Recommendation 9].

I trust that you have received your copy of the Social Justice Report 2009 and hope that you have found it to be a useful resource.

In which format would you have preferred / prefer to receive the Social Justice Report 2009?

That is what the Social Justice Report is doing.»

I consider these examples in this year's Social Justice Report.

In addition to the leasing debate and the ongoing implementation of the New Arrangements in Indigenous Affairs which is discussed in the Social Justice Report 2005, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) provided Concluding Observations on Australia's 13th and 14th periodic reports.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social justice report 1999, HREOC, Sydney, 2000, pp. 19 - 20.

Among other issues (see Appendix 1, Social Justice Report 2005) the Committee re-iterated concerns about the 1998 amendments to the Native Title Act 1993.

Rather, the vague and undefined concept of «self - empowerment» is preferred, and is said to engender «a greater sense of responsibility and independence» and to vary from self - determination «in that it is a means to an end - ultimately social and economic equality - rather than merely an end in itself»: Senator Herron, 9th Annual Joe and Enid Lyons Memorial Lecture, as quoted in Social justice report 1999, op.cit, pp19 - 20.

In my forthcoming Social Justice Report you will see a focus on re-setting or recasting our relationships with governments in this vein — both at the national level through constitutional reform, and at the local level highlighting the positive work of the Fitzroy Crossing community in demanding their right to self - determination to achieve their own pre-determined destinies.

According to a November 1998 Department of Justice report on the National Violence Against Women Survey, 1,510,455 women and 834,732 men per year are victims of physical violence by a spouse or loved one.

For further details see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social justice report 1998, HREOC, Sydney, 1998.

In my role as Social Justice Commissioner I am required to produce two annual reports on Indigenous human rights issues — the Social Justice Report and the Native Title Report.

We also undertake regular monitoring and reporting work, such as the Social Justice Commissioner's annual Social Justice Report and Native Title Report on issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

48 For a commentary on these provisions see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social Justice Report 1999, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 2000, pp89 - 97.

See also: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social justice report 1999, op.cit, Chapter 2.

110 For further discussion on self determination as the opportunity to «live well» see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social Justice Report 2002, chapter 2.

This contention was dealt with in detail in my Social Justice Report 2002.