Australian Human Rights Commission
Information for LOI – Australia, 29 August 2016
68 weeks, compared with 30 weeks for 15–24 year olds and 49 weeks
for 25–54 year olds.92
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In the Australian Human Rights Commission’s 2015 National
prevalence survey of age discrimination in the workplace, 27% of
people over the age of 50 reported experiencing age discrimination at
work. A third of those who had experienced age discrimination gave up
looking for work.93
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In 2014-15, 70.9% of complaints made by people over the age of 45
about age discrimination to the Australian Human Rights Commission
were in the area of employment.
The Willing to Work Report contains 56 recommendations, 72 examples of
good practice from a range of employers, and 44 case studies outlining
individual experiences. The recommendations are grouped into three key
themes:
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Priority Government commitments
Improving existing systems
What can be done by employers and business.
Issue for consideration in the LOIPR: information on the Australian
Government response to the Willing to Work Inquiry recommendations
concerning older Australians.
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Refugees and Asylum Seekers
11.1
Health requirement
Concluding Observation para 16; ICESCR articles 2(2) & 6
100.
11.2
The Commission welcomes the changes to the health requirement for
refugees resettled in Australia from overseas. The changes have provided
greater access to resettlement opportunities for people with disabilities and
health conditions, and their families.
Mandatory immigration detention, including of children
Concluding Observation para 25; ICESCR articles 2(2), 11 & 12
101.
Under the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) (the Migration Act), indefinite immigration
detention remains mandatory for all unlawful non-citizens.94 There is no regular
judicial review of decisions to detain. There are no minimum standards for
conditions of detention codified in Australian law. Numerous studies have
documented high rates of mental health problems amongst people in
immigration detention in Australia,95 with the negative impacts of detention
tending to worsen as detention becomes more prolonged.96
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