Location The office of the Australian Human Rights Commission is located in Sydney, with three Commissioners based in Melbourne and one in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Australian Human Rights Commission conducts its activities nationally – including by maintaining a National Information Service, and conducting consultations, meetings, and events across Australia. Achieving a national reach Being a small entity, with limited resourcing and a single base to our organisation, creates challenges to ensuring national coverage of our work and engaging with communities in rural, regional, and remote areas. In addressing this, we have made it a priority for the Commission to build consideration of rural, regional and, where possible, remote activity into our planning processes. These can vary from consultation and engagement events, to conducting training and workshops, commissioned research, and other Commission engagements. This is our fourth year of monitoring and reporting on this priority. In this reporting period, the Commission has had engagements in every state and territory. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has limited our ability to conduct engagements ‘in person’, especially due to state and territory border closures and lockdowns. Our focus on this priority will continue with an emphasis on ensuring that the increased reliance on digital technologies does not impact negatively on the reach and access of vulnerable and marginalised groups in these areas. 14 Australian Human Rights Commission Annual Report 2020–2021