A human rights based approach to social and emotional wellbeing.

Full Abstract

From July 2004 Tom Calma has been the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission. This role was created in 1992 to provide an ongoing monitoring agency for the human rights of Indigenous Australians and involves, inter alia, producing the Social Justice Report, an annual account to the Federal parliament on the status of enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Indigenous Australians. Commissioner Calma gave the opening oration to the 2006 Creating Futures conference and returned to open the conference in 2008 on 22 September in St Albans Anglican Church, located in the Aboriginal community of Yarrabah, 60 kilometres from Cairns. This is the text of that speech.

Author information

Author/s: Calma, Tom (T);

Affiliation: Australian Human Rights Commission, Level 8, 133 Castlereagh St, Sydney 2000, NSW, Australia. christopher.holland(-atsign-)humanrights.gov.au

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (Australas Psychiatry), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Aug; vol 17 Suppl 1 (issue ) : pp S15-9

Dates: Created 2009/07/06; Completed 2009/09/23;

PMID: 19579099, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 9/23/2009, IMS Date: )

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