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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander information
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander UnitThe ADCQ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit was formally established and launched in November 2003. Staff work to ensure issues important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples stay on the human rights agenda. The Unit is based in the Brisbane office and has a Coordinator and Indigenous Human Rights Assistant who are able to assist with enquiries. An Indigenous Human Rights Assistant is also based in the Cairns office to provide assistance with enquiries. These staff can be contact on our toll free line 1300 130 670. The unit has a strong community focus. This includes visiting communities, presenting information sessions, ensuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation on each of the five Commission advisory committees, engaging in projects and working towards the biannual Mabo Oration.
Reconciliation Action Plan
The Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland (the Commission), believes that cultural reform is required to dismantle the structural barriers that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are confronted with in daily life. The Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), is a strategic means by which the Commission can outline how we will play our part in closing the unacceptable gaps between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their fellow Australians.
Tracking Your RightsTracking Your Rights is a social justice community information resource for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Queensland. It was originally produced as part of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Education Project in conjunction with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. The new version was launched in Brisbane at the official opening of NAIDOC 2009. Tracking Your Rights is an online resource about discrimination in areas of life such as education, health, housing, sport and work. It also includes information for specific groups withing the community such as pople with an impairment, the lgbti (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) community, women and youth. The information is also available for printing from the website as fact sheet style leaflets. This is a living resource which will continue to be updated to meet the changing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Tracking Your Rights home page
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identified positionsGenerally it is unlawful discrimination to limit a work opportunity to a person of a particular race. However, the law recognises that there are some groups in our society who are affected by past or continuing disadvantage. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are one such group.
ResourcesAll of these resources are available from your nearest Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland office. Some may be downloaded for printing from this website.
Tracking Your Rights
Rights cards
Brochures
Poster'Reaching out to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples everywhere in Queensland' (pictured at the top of this page) is based on a painting Walking Together for our Future, commissioned by the ADCQ from Aboriginal artist Colleen Wall.
Torres Strait CreoleThe Commission has produced information about discrimination in Torres Strait Creole. You can listen to it, or read it by using the links above.
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesThe United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the General Assembly on September 13, 2007. The Declaration, a product of more than 20 years of research and discussion at the United Nations, is a non-binding document setting out basic standards for the recognition and protection of Indigenous peoples' rights internationally. It provides a framework for countries with different histories and circumstances to help reduce levels of disadvantage and discrimination experienced by Indigenous people. Australia was one of the countries who voted against the Declaration, along with New Zealand, the United States and Canada. Australia can't go back to the United Nations to sign the agreement now. But with a change of Federal Government, Australia has changed its position on the Declaration. On 3 April 2009 the Australian government issued a statement in support of the Declaration. The Declaration is non-binding, but in issuing the statement in support, Australia accepts the document as a framework for recognising and protecting the rights of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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Commissioner Kevin Cocks in the preamble to ADCQ's Reconciliation Action Plan states:
