6 | Annual Performance Statement Analysis of performance 2.2 Law and policy makers, at all levels, consider and address the human rights impacts we identify throughout submissions. Indicator: High proportion of Committee inquiry reports reflect and cite the Commission’s advice. Instances of our recommendations to UN mechanisms being reflected in treaty body concluding observations and other reports. Majority of our applications to the courts for leave to appear are accepted. Results Human rights scrutiny and our engagement with parliamentary submission processes are an important mechanism in strengthening Australia’s human rights framework. Our subject matter expertise grounded in international human rights treaties, robust and independent engagement on human rights issues and empowering an inclusive consulting process are key factors in law and policy makers considering and addressing human rights impacts through our submissions and applications to the courts. The Commission tracks over time all submissions to parliamentary inquiries, UN mechanisms and submissions to the courts and uses citation analysis as our indicator. This reporting period the Commission completed 57 submissions with 156 citations. This is a “point in time” analysis of submission and citations, as submissions may be made in one reporting period, and the final parliamentary report may be finalised in another. Additionally, the indicator relates only to the citation of the final parliamentary, UN or other report, rather than any wider citations in other publications. This also applies to UN submissions where there is a long consultation period. This reporting period there were no final reports from our 7 submissions to UN mechanisms. However, between 2019-2024 there were 25 submissions to UN mechanisms and 84 citations recorded. Anecdotally we know our submission may be referred to in other contexts which points to a wider impact, however this is not formally collated. Our data collection method is based on manual compilation and assessment, rather than the wider collection of metadata. While the collection of manual data against the indicator limits the scope of impact assessment, it supports greater understanding and learning about our impacts which is in line with the Commission’s learning approach. Similarly, our submissions to the courts may be 30