Sentences with phrase «with the social justice commissioner»

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Since the first decision of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in 1999 that the amended Native Title Act is inconsistent with Australia's obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 182 Social Justice Commissioners have repeatedly recommended legislative reform to make the NTA consistent with the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) and other human rights of Indigenous Australians.

He's since spent much time with Dodson, and also met with current and former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioners Mick Gooda and Professor Tom Calma as part of the process, which has been «a real eye opener».

I wish to address an issue which relates specifically to the functions that I have been appointed to fulfill - namely the proposal in the Bill to abolish the specialist position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and replace it with a generalist human rights commissioner.