Resources – Australia

Australian Human Rights Commission

• • • • Australian Human Rights Commission – (see, for example, resources around ‘cyber-racism’ and ‘race discrimination’)
      • Human Rights Information for Students
      • National Anti-Racism Partnership and Strategy
      • RightsApp (quick reference tool to international human rights instruments)
      • An Introduction to Human Rights and Responsibilities (interactive lessons and resources)
      • RightsEd: Disability rights: Accessibility and liveability (Year 7 unit of work with lessons and activity sheets)
      • Human rights videos and resources for primary students  
      • ‘Building Belonging’: a toolkit for early childhood educators to encourage respect for cultural diversity and confront racial prejudice (Article 8 of UNCRC) 

Government

• Queensland
  • • Human rights at schools & universities
    • Queensland Education Department Human rights in education resources
    • Trans @ school guide for trans and gender diverse students knowing their human rights 

• NSW
  • • Australian Human Rights Institute: Human Rights Acts around Australia
    • NSW Anti-Discrimination Board
    • Klocker, Natascha, Trenerry, Brigid and Webster, Kim (2011), How does freedom of religion and belief affect health and wellbeing?
• Victoria
  • • Victoria’s Charter of human rights and responsibilities online learning modules 
    • Victoria Department of Education equal opportunity and human rights resources
    • Victoria Department of Education: How young people can get involved in human rights
    • Resilience, rights and respectful relationship
    • VicHealth, the McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit and the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission – Building on our Strengths (2009)
• Tasmania
  • • Child rights educational resource 
    • Equal Opportunity Tasmania training 
    • Discrimination is against the law: Know your rights
•  South Australia
  • • Equal opportunity South Australia additional resources for teachers 
    • What legal rights at school do you have as a trans and gender diverse young person? 

• Western Australia
  • • Centre for Human Rights Education student resources 
    • Human Rights resources 
    • Law Society of WA Education Resources
    • Department of Education WA Connect and respect resources  
• Northern Territory
  • • NT Department of Education Indigenous Languages and Culture Rights curriculum resources
    • NT Anti-discrimination Commission Education & Training
    • NT Anti-discrimination Commission videos
    • NT Anti-discrimination Commission talking posters 
• ACT
  • • ACT Government Education Student voice
    • ACT Human Rights Commission education resources
    • ACT Human Rights Commission Children and young people resources  
• Non-government Organizations (NGOs)
  • • Amnesty International in Australia – Resources for Teachers
    • Australian National Commission for UNESCO
    • Diversity Council of Australia
    • FECCA’s key anti-racism strategy document FECCA Position Paper: Best Practice for Countering Racism in Australia – a Community Sector Perspective
    • United Nations Association of Australia
    • Act for Peace education resources
    • Amnesty International: What are human rights?
    • Oxfam education resources
    • UNICEF Parent and teacher resources

Australian human rights education resource catalogues

• • Australian human rights education resources
  • Australian First Nations stories, cultures and histories curriculum resources 
  • Enabling young voices for civic action resource catalogue 

• Universities
  • • Challenging Racism: The Anti-Racism Research Project (2011), University of Western Sydney
• Other
  • • All Together Now – Erasing Racism
    • Cultural Infusion
    • Institute for Cultural Diversity
    • Learning Together – Reconciliation
    • Living in Between: Diversity Education through Storytelling
    • Making Multicultural Australia for the 21st Century
    • Reconciliation Australia
    • Reconciliation South Australia
    • Right Now – Human Rights in Australia
    • Scanlon Foundation – survey on social cohesion 2017
    • Tandanya – National Aboriginal Cultural Institute