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Three areas of human rights
No full textDisability and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes, looks at three areas of human rights in which the involvement of the Australian Human Rights Commission has played a part in changing the human rights landscape - the case of Scott v Telstra, Teoh\u27s case, and the Bringing them home inquiry.
(23 minutes)
This is the third podcast in the series and a Transcript of Episode 3 can also be found down below in related content
The antiquarian photography of Cosmo Innes
No full textThe article focuses on the photography of historian Cosmo Innes. The author provides a brief historical background on Innes, discusses his interest in photographing pre-Reformation Scottish churches, and contrasts his work depicting church architecture to his photographs of country mansions, including Cawdor Castle, Auldbar Castle, and Gordon Castle
2008 Immigration detention report
No full textThis report contains a summary of observations by the Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Graeme Innes AM, and staff of the Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) following visits to Australia’s immigration detention facilities, and to people in community detention, between June and September 2008. The contents of the report are based on direct observations made during the visits, and on discussions with staff and immigration detainees. This report follows the Commission’s 2006 and 2007 reports on annual inspections of mainland immigration detention facilities. The Commission has also commented on earlier visits to immigration detention facilities in a range of other reports available on its website
Ramp Up – disability goes online
No full textOn the International Day for People with Disabilities last year, the ABC launched a portal called Ramp Up. Based on a similar BBC website called Ouch, it deals with day-to-day issues facing people with disabilities, but in a way which challenges generally held stereotypes. In this instalment of PodRights, Ramp Up’s creator and editor, activist and comedienne Stella Young, discusses the concept, it’s development and the intentions for its future with Disability and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes.
Audio - 16 May 2011: Stella Young (MP3, 20 minutes)
Transcript of episode 9
 
The national disability insurance scheme
No full textThe federal Government recently announced that it will go ahead with a National Disability Insurance Scheme. But what will this scheme really mean for people with disability and their carers throughout Australia? To answer those and other questions, Disability and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes is joined in this instalment of Pod Rights by Dr Rhonda Galbally AO. Dr Galbally is the chair of the National People with Disability and Carers Council, which prepared the Shut Out report which led to the reference to the Productivity Commission, and has personally lobbied hard for the scheme.
Audio - 22 August 2011: Dr Rhonda Galbally AO (MP3, 28 minutes)
Transcript of episode 1
Print disability and the right to read
No full textPeople who have a print disability include people who are blind or with low vision, people with a physical disability that makes it difficult for them to manipulate a standard book and people with other cognitive impairments. This is a large group of people. However, these people have access to precious little information in their lives. In developed countries, such as Australia, less than 5% of published material is put into an alternate format. In the developing world it is less than 1%. The World Blind Union has been running a right to read campaign to encourage action on this issue. In this instalment of Podrights, Disability and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes, discusses the campaign and its challenges with the President of the World Blind Union, Maryanne Diamond
Australia's new age discrimination commissioner
No full textWith the appointment of the Hon. Susan Ryan AO, Australia has its first full time Age Discrimination Commissioner. From 1975-1988 Susan was Senator for the ACT and became the first woman to hold a Cabinet post in a federal Labor Government. More recently, she has chaired the trustee board of the IAG/ NRMA Superannuation Plan, held leadership positions in Australian Superannuation, including President of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees 2000-2007 and was a member of the ASX Corporate Governance Council from 2003 to 2007. In this instalment of PodRight, Susan joins Disability and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes to talk about her new role.
Audio - 8 August 2011: Hon Susan Ryan AO (MP3, 17 minutes)
Transcript of episode 1
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The John Innes Cytology Department of 1952
No full textThis exhibit presents a photograph of the John Innes Cytology Department in 1952, featuring renowned cytologist C.D. Darlington. The presence of Ahraful Haque, originating from Dacca, demonstrates the international collaboration and diverse talent that characterized the John Innes Institute during that time. Ahraful Haque worked at the John Innes Horticultural Institute in the early 1950s, resigning in 1953.
Author: L.S. Clarke
Date: 1952
People Featured: L. Sachs, R. de Pienaar, A. Haque, R.D. Brock, J. McLeish, G.J. Dowrick, J. Morrison, J.B. Hair, L.F. La Cour, C.D. Darlington, A. Rutishauser
Source: John Innes Centre Archives, Folder: JI/P/AL1/75
© John Innes Archives, courtesy of the John Innes Foundation.</p
Innes Smith Medical Portrait
No full textPortrait of Sir Thomas Browne. Physician and author. After a paintin
Innes Smith Medical Portrait
No full textPhotograph of a sculpture of John Heysham. Author of "The Carlisle Bills of Mortality
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