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15. At https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/constitutional-reform-creating-nation-all-us-2011
(viewed 23 October 2017). See also Australian Human Rights Commission, Social Justice Report
2008 (2009) 62–76. At http://www.humanrights.gov.au/social_justice/sj_report/sjreport08/index.html
(viewed 23 October 2017).
25 Mutuma Ruteere, Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on his mission to Australia, UN Doc
A/HRC/35/41/Add.2 (9 June 2017) 17 [71]. At
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session35/Documents/A_HRC_35_41_Ad
d_2_EN.docx (viewed 10 October 2017); Felipe González Morales, Report of the Special Rapporteur
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Nauru, UN Doc A/HRC/35/25/Add.3 (24 April 2017) 19. At
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Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples on her
visit to Australia, UN Doc A/HRC/36/46/Add.2 (8 August 2017) 17 [107]. At
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26 Minister for Foreign Affairs, The Hon Julie Bishop MP and Attorney General (Cth), Senator the Hon
George Brandis QC, ‘Improving oversight and conditions in detention’ (Media Release, 9 February
2017). At https://www.attorneygeneral.gov.au/Mediareleases/Pages/2017/FirstQuarter/Improvingoversight-and-conditions-in-detention.aspx (viewed 11 September 2017).
27 The Special Rapporteur on racial discrimination has recommended that the Australian Government
expedite ratification of the ICRMW and the ILO Conventions on the protection of migrant workers and
on Indigenous rights: see Mutuma Ruteere, Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms
of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on his mission to Australia, Human
Rights Council, 35th sess, UN Doc A/HRC/35/41/Add.2 (9 June 2017) 17 [71].
28 Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples on her
visit to Australia, UN Doc A/HRC/36/46/Add.2 (8 August 2017) 7 [31]. At
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29 Mutuma Ruteere, Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on his mission to Australia, UN Doc
A/HRC/35/41/Add.2 (9 June 2017) 13 [50]. At
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d_2_EN.docx (viewed 10 October 2017).
30 Aboriginal Languages Act 2017 No 51 (NSW), ss 4-6. At
https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/view/act/2017/51 (viewed 20 October 2017).
31 See the concerns of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council in Bridget Brennan, ‘NSW introduces nation's
first laws to recognise and revive Indigenous languages’ ABC News (online) 11 October 2017. At
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-11/nsw-passes-unprecedented-laws-to-revive-indigenouslanguages/9039746 (viewed 30 October 2017).
32 See, eg, Andrew Markus, Mapping Social Cohesion: The Scanlon Foundation surveys 2016
(Monash University, 2016). At http://scanlonfoundation.org.au/research/surveys (viewed 27 April
2017).
33 Ian McAllister, The Australian Voter (UNSW Press, 2011) 66.
34 Senate Select Committee on Strengthening Multiculturalism, Parliament of Australia, Ways of
protecting and strengthening Australia’s multiculturalism and social inclusion (2017). At
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35 Senate Select Committee on Strengthening Multiculturalism, Parliament of Australia, Ways of
protecting and strengthening Australia’s multiculturalism and social inclusion (2017) 70–71 [4.51]
(Recommendation 7). At
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Strengthening_Multiculturalism/M
ulticulturalism/Final_report (viewed 11 October 2017).
36 Australian Human Rights Commission, National Anti-Racism Strategy and Racism. It Stops with Me
Campaign. At https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/race-discrimination/projects/national-antiracism-strategy-and-racism-it-stops-me-campaign (viewed 8 December 2016).
37 Australian Human Rights Commission, National Anti-Racism Strategy and Racism. It Stops with Me:
Summary Evaluation and Future Direction, June 2015, 45. At https://www.humanrights.gov.au/ourwork/race-discrimination/publications/national-anti-racism-strategy-and-racism-it-stops-me (viewed 10
October 2017).
38 Australian Human Rights Commission, Racism. It Stops with Me Campaign, at
https://itstopswithme.humanrights.gov.au/ (viewed 30 October 2017).
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