6 | Annual Performance Statement 2.3 The national human rights reform agenda proposed in the Free and Equal: A conversation on human rights report is considered and addressed by the Parliament, government and the non-government sector. Indicator: The recommendations and actions in the report generate dialogue and receive public support and commitment from the Attorney-General and the non-government sector. Results In its final report, the PJCHR endorsed the Commission’s Human Rights Act model while also suggesting improvements to it. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (PJCHR) report also endorsed the recommendations of the Commission’s final report (with one exception: while it extensively noted the Commission’s proposed reforms of federal discrimination law, it did not make a specific recommendation about this). Revitalising Australia’s Commitment to Human Rights: Free & Equal Final Report 2023. 34 The Commission’s five year Free and Equal project culminated in 2023-24 with the tabling in Parliament of the final report of the project, Revitalising Australia’s commitment to human rights, on 9 December 2023 and the national Free and Equal conference, on 6-7 June 2024. There were also two national processes that provided significant consideration and endorsement of the Commission’s Free and Equal proposals: • • The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights’ inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework The final report of the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. The final report of the project, Revitalising Australia’s commitment to human rights, set out the Commission’s proposals for a new national human rights framework. In short, the report noted that Australia’s national systems for protecting human rights are out of date and not fit for purpose to best protect the rights of all people in Australia in the 21st century. The Commission laid out eight integrated reforms for implementation through a new national human rights framework, with 12 recommendations to achieve this. The report built on two position papers that the Commission had released in previous years setting out a federal discrimination law reform agenda and a model national Human Rights Act, as well as submissions that the Commission had made to the PJCHR for its inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework. The PJCHR inquiry had been set up in March 2023 immediately following the release by the Commission of its model national Human Rights Act. The terms of reference for the inquiry referred to the suitability of the enactment of a Human Rights Act at the national level and referenced the Commission’s model.