AHISA SUBMISSION

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights

30 June 2023

Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework

AHISA’s submission notes the role schools play in helping to fulfil Australia’s commitment to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the rights of a child to education and development delivered by child safe organisations. Schools also help educate children about human rights and equip children to participate in Australian society in a manner that recognises the rights of others. These aspects of the Convention are well-documented in the Australian Human Rights Framework 2010 and National Human Rights Action Plan 2012.

The submission then draws the Committee’s attention to two issues involving human rights which have arisen recently due to technological and social change, but which are not yet fully resolved in Australian legislation: the digital rights of children; and the extent to which schools with a religious affiliation are able to give full expression to their life as a faith community.

Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework – FULL SUBMISSION