Australian Human Rights Commission
Australia and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (ICERD), Shadow report to the CERD Committee – 8 July 2010
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Access to the labour market (ICERD Article 5)...................................... 30
Health and well being of people from culturally and linguistically
diverse backgrounds (ICERD Articles 5,7)............................................. 31
Cyber racism (ICERD Article 2) ............................................................... 34
Counter-terrorism laws............................................................................ 35
Exploitation of migrant workers (ICERD Articles 2,5,7) ........................ 36
Freedom of Religion and Belief (ICERD Article 5) ................................. 37
Issues relating to asylum seekers.............................................................. 39
Detention of ‘unlawful non-citizens’ ....................................................... 39
Mandatory detention ................................................................................ 39
Detainee numbers, nationalities and length of detention ..................... 40
Conditions of detention ........................................................................... 41
Detention of families and children.......................................................... 42
Detention and offshore processing on Christmas Island ..................... 43
The suspension of processing of some asylum claims ....................... 43
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Appendix One: List of acronyms................................................................ 45
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Appendix Two: List of recommendations.................................................. 46
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