Chapter 3: Endnotes
1.
Australian Human Rights Commission, (March 2023),
Free & Equal Position Paper: A Human Rights Act for
Australia, <https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/
files/free_equal_hra_2022_-_main_report_rgb_0_0.pdf>.
2.
Submissions to the inquiry are available online at: <https://
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/
Joint/Human_Rights/HumanRightsFramework/
Submissions> and transcripts of public hearings
are available online at: <https://www.aph.gov.au/
Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Human_
Rights/HumanRightsFramework/Public_Hearings>.
3.
Human Rights Law Centre, (July 2023), Submission to
the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights.
4.
Charter of Rights Campaign, (7 July 2023), A Human
Rights Charter Benefits Everyone, (submission), p. 13.
5.
See Table 2 in Chapter 1 of this report for the most
recent comments by each of the seven human rights
treaty committees in their most recent periodic reviews
of Australia.
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6.
Australian Human Rights Commission, (March 2023),
Free & Equal Position Paper: A Human Rights Act for
Australia, pp. 184–186, <https://humanrights.gov.au/
sites/default/files/free_equal_hra_2022_-_main_report_
rgb_0_0.pdf>.
7.
Momcilovic v The Queen (2011) HCA 34 CLR 1.
8.
The AAT is currently in the process of being replaced
with a new federal administrative review tribunal.
9.
Commonwealth of Australia, (29 September 2023),
Final report – Volume 4, Realising the human rights
of people with disability, p. 107, <https://disability.
royalcommission.gov.au/publications/final-reportvolume-4-realising-human-rights-people-disability>.
10. Commonwealth of Australia, (29 September 2023),
Final report – Volume 4, Realising the human rights
of people with disability, p. 131, <https://disability.
royalcommission.gov.au/publications/final-reportvolume-4-realising-human-rights-people-disability>.
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