cognitive and psychiatric impairment in Australia
(Final Report, November 2016).
111
Australian Human Rights Commission, Report
No. 56: Sri Lankan refugees v Commonwealth of
Australia (DIBP) [2012] AusHRC 56 (July 2012)
[8.2].
112 Australian Human Rights Commission, Report No.
141: Immigration detention following visa refusal
or cancellation under section 501 of the Migration
Act 1958 (Cth) [2021] AusHRC 141 (February
2021).
113 Paul Karp, ‘Electronic monitoring in community
could reduce immigration detention, document
states’ Guardian Australia, 22 November 2022,
<https://www.theguardian.com/australianews/2022/nov/22/electric-monitoring-incommunity-could-reduce-immigration-detentiondocument-states>.
114 Adam McBeth, Justine Nolan and Simon Rice,
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University Press, 2011) 356.
115 Human Rights Committee, Concluding
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Australia, 121st sess, UN Doc CCPR/C/AUS/CO/6
(9 November 2017), [5]–[6].
116 UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
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117 Human Rights Council, Report of the Working
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118 See eg, UN Human Rights Committee, Concluding
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CCPR/C/AUS/CO/5, [8]; UN Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Concluding
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UN Doc E/C.12/1/Add.50 [14], [24].
119 The legal history of the Australian Human Rights
Commission and its complaint handling functions
are discussed in detail in: Rosalind Croucher,
‘Seeking Equal Dignity without Discrimination:
The Australian Human Rights Commission and
the Handling of Complaints’ (2019) 93 Australian
Law Journal 571.
120 Australian Bill of Rights Bill 1985 (Cth).
121 Rosalind Croucher, ‘Seeking Equal Dignity
without Discrimination: The Australian Human
Rights Commission and the Handling of
Complaints’ (2019) 93 Australian Law Journal 571.
122 ‘Australia and the Universal Declaration on Human
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our-work/publications/australia-and-universaldeclaration-human-rights>.
123 Claire Powell, Submission 82, Free & Equal
Inquiry; Claire Powell, Submission 82, Free
& Equal Inquiry.