John Paton Quin, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said that Australia had carefully considered the recommendations received and consulted with domestic instances of government and civil society. The recommendations had focused on immigration and asylum seeker recommendations, the rights of indigenous Australians, gender, and the rights of people with disabilities. He outlined Australia’s responses to the recommendations and the reasoning that went behind accepting or rejecting them.
The Australian Human Rights Commission also spoke. – See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/
Today the Human Rights Council adopted outcomes of Universal Periodic Review of Australia after hearing further representations from the Australian government and AHRC. For more see:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/