House of Representatives

Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021

Explanatory Memorandum

(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Indigenous Australians, the Honourable Ken Wyatt AM MP)

[1]
See General Recommendation No. 32, The meaning and scope of special measures in the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD/C/GC/32; 24 September 2009) para 22.

[2]
UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), General Comment No . 19 : The right to social security ( Art . 9 of the Covenant ), 4 February 2008, E/C.12/GC/19 at [1].

[3]
Ibid, at [2], [22].

[4]
UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), General Comment No . 14 : The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health ( Art . 12 of the Covenant ), 11 August 2000, E/C.12/2000/4, at [9].


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