Comments policy

Acceptable use policy

The intent of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Acceptable Use Policy is to create a positive space where people are able to publicly contribute their views to this page, without fear of abuse, harassment or exposure to offensive or inappropriate content.

When contributing your views, please ensure that you:

• protect your personal privacy and that of others by not including personal information about yourself or about others in your posts (such as  email addresses, private addresses, phone numbers or other identifying information);
• represent your own views and not impersonate or falsely represent any other person;
• do not abuse, harass or threaten others;
• do not post anything which:
  • incites, induces, aids, assists, promotes, causes, instructs or permits violence, discrimination, harassment, victimisation or hatred towards others, or
  • vilifies or is likely to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate other people, particularly on the basis of their sex, gender identity, race, colour, descent, national origin, religion, ethnicity, age, sexuality or any disability;
• do not make defamatory or libellous comments;
• do not use insulting, provocative, hateful, obscene or offensive language;
• do not post material that infringes the intellectual property rights of others;
• do not post multiple versions of the same view; and
• do not promote commercial interests in your posts.

Posts that do not comply (or do not appear to comply) with the above points will be moderated or may be removed. Posts may be edited by the moderator for length or to remove unacceptable parts of contributions.

Your personal information and privacy

For further details, see the Commission’s Privacy Policy
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/site/privacy/index.html.

Disclaimers

*Content provided and responses given on this blog do not constitute official legal advice and/or complaint handling advice. Content or requests of a legal or complaints nature should be forwarded to the relevant Commission area for private response.

*Commission staff will respond as soon as possible, but may not be able to respond to all individual comments.