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24 May 2013
The final National Human Rights Action Plan was released on 10 December 2012. A number of commitments made by the Government in the exposure draft were removed from the final NHRAP. The Human Rights Law Centre contacted the Attorney-General’s Department to ask why they had been removed. We have now received the AG’s response, provided in the table below.
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10 December 2012
The Australian Government has released the final version of its National Human Rights Action Plan. Federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon announced the release of the plan on International Human Rights Day.
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6 March 2012
March: The Human Rights Law Centre has made a submission on the exposure draft of the NHRAP entitled Achieving SMART Action on Human Rights, which builds on two previous submissions made by the HRLC during the NHRAP process.
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9 December 2011
December: The Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, has released the final version of the Baseline Study and an exposure draft of the National Human Rights Action Plan. Comments will be accepted on the draft NHRAP until 29 February 2012.
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16 September 2011
September: The Attorney-General's Department has announced timeframes for the release of the final version of the Baseline Study and release of the draft National Human Rights Action Plan. NGO's should be aware there will be further opportunities for consultation in December.
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13 September 2011
September: The Human Rights Law Centre has made a major submission on the draft Baseline Study entitled A Sound Baseline for Human Rights in Australia.
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5 September 2011
September: The Attorney-General’s department has extended the due date for submissions on the consultation draft to the Baseline Study to 9 September 2011
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15 August 2011
August: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged the Gillard government to create the position of a children's commissioner to champion the interests of vulnerable minors.
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15 August 2011
August: The UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights provides robust critique of the Australian Government's draft Baseline Study for its National Human Rights Action Plan.
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August 2011
August: The Australian Government has recently released the draft Baseline Study for comment as the first step towards implementing the National Human Rights Action Plan. The HRLC has prepared a preliminary summary and analysis of key gaps and concerns.
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11 July 2011
July: The Australian Government has released more details about the National Human Rights Action including a draft Baseline Study designed to identify potential gaps in the protection of human rights in Australia.
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22 June 2011
June: The Commonwealth Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, addressed a NGO forum on Human Rights at Parliament House...
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8 June 2011
Australia formally responds to the 145 recommendations made by the Human Rights Council at the Universal Periodic Review: Check out the summary of recommendations made and what Australia says in response...
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25 May 2011
Transcript of Navi Pallay's opening remarks at press conference in Canberra 25 May 2011
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25 May 2011
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has been highly critical of the Australian Government’s asylum seeker policies.
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20 May 2011
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay arrives in Australia to discuss rights issues with the Government, the Australian Human Rights Commission, as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and non-governmental organizations...
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May 2010
National Human Rights Action Plan website launched...
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