Graeme Innes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Graeme Innes
Occupation	Human Rights Activist
Date Of Birth	Aug 9, 1955(1955-08-09)
Age	69
Birthplace	Sydney
Country	Australia
Birth City	New South Wales
Horoscope	Leo

Graeme Innes Biography

Graeme Innes is one of the most popular and richest Human Rights Activist who was born on August 9, 1955 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Innes attended the North Rocks School for Blind Children, run by the New South Wales Department of Education on a site owned by the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children. He was made school captain in 1971 in early recognition of his leadership capacities. He was thereafter one of the first blind children integrated into the mainstream school system, attending Ashfield Boys High School for Years 11 and 12 in 1972–73. He was a prefect at this school, and a member of the 1972 debating team that won many competitions. He then undertook law studies at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1978, and gained the foundation for his later specialisation in social justice and human rights law.

After completing practical legal training at the College of Law in 1978, Innes applied for about 30 jobs, but many employers did not understand how a blind person could work as a lawyer. He gained a position as a clerical assistant with the NSW Public Service, and two years later became a legal officer at the Department of Consumer Affairs. He became a conciliator in 1983, first at the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board and then at the WA Equal Opportunity Commission.

Graeme Innes Net Worth

Graeme Innes is one of the richest Human Rights Activist from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Graeme Innes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Graeme Gordon Innes AM (born 9 August 1955) is a lawyer, mediator and company director, and was Australia’s Disability Discrimination Commissioner from December 2005 to July 2014. 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. In 2013, Innes won a case against RailCorp, 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 in recognition of his human rights work and his contribution to the rights of people with disability in Australia.

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Innes then became the Deputy Disability Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission from 1999–2005. As a tribunal member, he maintained a high resolution rate of complaints using conciliation for tribunals including the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal (1996–2005); the NSW Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal (1996–2005); and the Social Security Appeals Tribunal.

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Grigori Ranked on the list of most popular Human Rights Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Graeme Innes celebrates birthday on August 9 of every year.

As a human rights advocate, in his personal capacity as well as professionally, Innes has achieved a number of reforms for people with disability. In 2013 acting in a personal capacity, he won a case in the Federal Magistrates Court against RailCorp (which delivers train services in NSW). The magistrate found RailCorp had discriminated against blind and visually impaired passengers by refusing to commit to a program of improving station announcements on Sydney trains so that passengers would know where to get off. Innes won the case and $10,000 damages, after RailCorp spent more than $400,000 on its unsuccessful defence. Also in 2013, Innes initiated an online petition calling on department store Myer to increase its employment of people with disability to 10 per cent of its workforce. This action was in response to a negative statement by Myer’s CEO about the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Innes’ petition gained 35,000 signatures within a few days. Innes has been an active advocate for the implementation of cinema captioning and audio descriptions in Australia.