Recommendations

No Recommendation Response Issue Population group
151 Continue efforts to achieve further economic empowerment of women


​ 		Accepts Equality and non-discrimination Women and girls
152 Implement the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2013, in letter and spirit, to create socio-economic gender parity

​​ 		Accepts Equality and non-discrimination, Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks, Employment Women and girls
153 Strengthen efforts to combat family violence against women and children, especially within indigenous communities

​​ 		Accepts Violence, abuse and mistreatment Women and girls, Children, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
154 Make provision in its national legislation for the crime of domestic violence and take all adequate measures to eliminate it

​​ 		Notes Violence, abuse and mistreatment, Criminal justice, Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks Women and girls, Children
155 Penalize the ill-treatment of children, and adopt measures to investigate and punish the situations of vulnerability with regard to women and girls with disabilities

​​ 		Accepts Violence, abuse and mistreatment, Criminal justice, Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks Women and girls, Children, People with disability
156 Redouble its efforts to reduce violence against women and domestic violence

​​ 		Accepts Violence, abuse and mistreatment Women and girls, Children
157 Step up efforts to combat domestic violence

​​ 		Accepts Violence, abuse and mistreatment Women and girls, Children
158 Continue strengthening the measures taken to reduce violence against women and their children

​​ 		Accepts Violence, abuse and mistreatment Women and girls, Children
159 Further effectively fulfil the National plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022 by means of sustained funding, independent monitoring and evaluation

​​​ 		Accepts Violence, abuse and mistreatment, Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks Women and girls, Children
160 Ensure the effective implementation of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children, in particular to protect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, culturally and linguistically diverse women, and women with disabilities

​​ 		Accepts Violence, abuse and mistreatment, Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks Women and girls, Children, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, People from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, People with disability
161 Continue with implementation of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children with a particular focus on support services and resources available to women living in more remote areas, and women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds

​ 		Accepts Violence, abuse and mistreatment, Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks, Equal access to services, Remote Indigenous communities Women and girls, Children, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, People from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds
162 Effectively implement the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Their Children and strengthen its actions to reduce violence and sexual abuse of women with disabilities and indigenous women

​ 		Accepts Violence, abuse and mistreatment, Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks Women and girls, Children, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, People with disability
163 Ensure that incidents of violence against women and children are thoroughly investigated and perpetrators of violence are brought to justice

​ 		Accepts Violence, abuse and mistreatment, Criminal justice Women and girls, Children
164 Make utmost efforts to protect women with disabilities and indigenous women from all forms of (a) violence and (b) discrimination

​ 		Accepts Violence, abuse and mistreatment, Equality and non-discrimination Women and girls, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, People with disability
165 Remove the reservation to the CRC, and prohibit corporal punishment of children in the home and all other settings

​ 		Notes (will not consider further at this time) International human rights treaty action, Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks Children
166 Further promote protection of the rights of the child, giving emphasis to Indigenous Children

​​ 		Accepts General Children, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
167 Take immediate measures to ensure that all children have access to all levels of education and quality health services

​​​ 		Accepts Equal access to services, Education, Health Children
168 Build on the achievements of the National Framework for Protection of Australian children (2009–2020)

​​ 		Accepts Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks Children
169 Comprehensively improve the effectiveness of measures to protect the rights of the child


​ 		Accepts General Children
170 Continue with its efforts to protect all children, protect the rights and interests of children and provide vulnerable children with better access to childhood services

​ 		Accepts Equal access to services, General Children
171 Further strengthen efforts towards birth regulation for all, with a view to encouraging access to relevant procedures

​ 		Accepts Equal access to services, Birth registration Children
172 Bring the Australian juvenile justice system in conformity with international standards, including removing minors from the adult justice system and ensuring their rehabilitation

​ 		Notes Conditions in detention, Criminal justice Children
173 Reform the juvenile justice system in conformity with the international standards and increase the protection of children involved in penal proceedings

​ 		Accepts Conditions in detention, Criminal justice Children
174 Abolish the mandatory minimum sentencing of juvenile offenders

​ 		Notes (will not consider further at this time) Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks, Criminal justice Children
175 Improve conditions in youth detention facilities, including through ensuring independent and effective investigation of all allegations of human rights violations therein

​​​ 		Accepts Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks, Criminal justice, Conditions in detention Children
176 Develop alternatives to the mandatory sentencing laws placing children as young as 10 years of age in juvenile detention centres

​ 		Notes (will not consider further at this time) Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks, Criminal justice Children
177 Abolish the sentencing of children to life in prison

​ 		Notes (will not consider further at this time) Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks, Criminal justice Children
178 Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18 years as recommended by the CRC

​ 		Notes (will not consider further at this time) Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks, Criminal justice, Implementation of recommendations and follow-up Children
179 Raise the age of the criminal responsibility in accordance with General Observation 10 of the CRC

​​ 		Notes (will not consider further at this time) Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks, Criminal justice Children
180 Adopt national legislation prohibiting the use of sterilization of adults without their consent, and of children

​​ 		Notes (will not consider further at this time) Domestic legal, institutional and policy frameworks, Sterilisation Children, People with disability