Events and Training

The ACT Human Rights Commission will hold its annual International Human Rights Day community forum on 8 December 2011 at the ACT Legislative Assembly. This year's theme is the Twentieth Anniversary of the enactment of the ACT Discrimination Act 1991.

Older Australians, their families and carers are invited to participate in conversations on ageing with Federal Minister for Mental Health & Ageing Mark Butler on 14 December 2011

A national conference, 1-2 December 2011,  hosted by The University of Melbourne and the Museum of Australian Democracy at the Old Parliament House, Canberra

Older Australians, their families and carers are invited to participate in a conversation on ageing with Federal Minister for Mental Health & Ageing Mark Butler and Melissa Parke MP, Member for Fremantle

As women we get very used to putting others ahead of ourselves.  We look after our families, our friends and our colleagues and often lose sight of how to best look after ourselves.  When we do this we often wear ourselves out and then we wonder why we have so little energy, why we seem to have trouble remembering things and why our life seems quite unrewarding and lacking in pleasure and joy. 

This workshop looks at why it is so important to look after ourselves in nurturing, encouraging and healthy ways and how cherishing ourselves is one of the keys to better relationships, better health and a happier self.

Australians for Affordable Housing New South Wales campaign launch. RSVP: admin@shelternsw.org.au by Monday 21 November.

Canberra: ACFID and the United Nations Information Centre are bringing together three great speakers to share perspectives on "The Right to Development at 25" at a special event on Monday 5 December in Canberra.

The event is jointly hosted by the Australian Human Rights Commission and Anti-Slavery Australia, UTS.

Commemorate the apology of the Australian Parliament to the Forgotten Australians, meet with Federal and ACT politicians to discuss the issues affecting children in state care (past and present), and listen to guest speakers John Murray and Senator Gary Humphries. Afterwards, visit the opening day of the Forgotten Australians exhibition at the NMA for ‘Music to Remember’ by Forgotten Australians.

Racism affects all Australians. As part of the federal government’s new multicultural policy, the National Anti-Racism Partnership and Strategy brings together key government agencies and NGOs to remove the spectre of racism in Australia.