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In an emergency, call 000 (triple zero) for the police, ambulance or fire service.

1800 RESPECT

1800 737 732
1800RESPECT helps with domestic and family violence.

Lifeline

13 11 14
Lifeline - helps with hard feelings, like throughs about suicide or dying.

Qlife general info

1800 184 527
Qlife links LGBTQIA+ people to peer support and referrals. Call between 3pm and midnight.

13 YARN

13 92 76
13 Yarn is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are feeling worried or no good.
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Our rights

In this section, we explain the history of people’s

Rights are rules about how people must treat you:

  • fairly
  • equally.

We also explain the history of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD).

The CRPD is an agreement between different countries.

The CRPD explains how people must respect the rights of people with disability.

We look at the rights of women and
people.

A gender diverse person is someone:

  • who feels like they do not fit the idea of being a man or a woman
  • whose gender given to them when they were born does not match the gender they are.

We explain the rights that women and gender diverse people have in the

Our justice system includes:

  • prisons
  • the courts
  • police
  • the law.
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