In July 2009, the HRLRC prepared a Briefing Paper on Key Human Rights Issues in Australia for Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, in advance of her visit to Australia in July-August 2009.
The Briefing Paper considers a range of contemporary human rights issues in Australia, including:
- the current legal and political context for human rights in Australia;
- recent reviews of Australia by UN human rights treaty bodies;
- lack of entrenchment of basic human rights in Australia’s domestic laws;
- the human rights of Indigenous Australians;
- women’s rights and gender equality;
- immigration law, policy and practice;
- racial and religious discrimination; and
- children’s rights.
Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, was the Centre's special guest in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne in July 2009
