Graeme innes biography australia

Australian human rights advocate

Graeme Gordon InnesAM (born 9 August 1955^{[citation needed]}) is an Australian lawyer, mediator and company director, university chancellor and was Australia's Disability Discrimination Commissioner^[1] from December 2005 to July 2014.

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As a human rights advocate for the past 30 years he has played a role in many human rights and disability initiatives, including the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.^[2]

In 2013, Innes won a case against RailCorp,^[3] which was found to have discriminated against blind and visually impaired passengers.

Innes was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia in 1995^[4] in recognition of his human rights work and his contribution to the rights of people with disability in Australia.

Early life and education

Innes was born in Sydney, Australia.

The son of Alwyn and Dorothy Innes, he has an