Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

During 2005-06, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) investigated 24 complaints about our actions. Two reports in which we were a respondent were tabled in parliament by HREOC in 2005-06:

• HREOC report no 31 - Report of an inquiry into a complaint by Mr Zacharias Manongga, Consul of the Republic of Indonesia for the Northern Territory, that the human rights of Indonesian Fishers detained on vessels in Darwin Harbour were breached by the Commonwealth of Australia (2005)
• HREOC report no. 35 - Report of an inquiry into a complaint by Mr AV of a breach of his human rights while in immigration detention (2006).