EXTENSION FOR NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CONSULTATION

Attorney General, Robert McClelland, today agreed to a request by Father Frank Brennan, Chair of
the National Human Rights Consultation Committee, for a further one month extension to the
reporting date of the National Human Rights Consultation.

The Committee will now report to Government by 30 September 2009.

The Committee has requested a short extension to ensure that it has sufficient time to consider all of
the views expressed by the community during the consultation. The Committee has undertaken a broad and extensive consultation process, receiving around 40,000 written submissions and conducting 66 community roundtables in 52 locations across Australia.

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