The Australian Human Rights Commission and the Victorian Equal Opportunities and Human Rights Commission published a joint position paper on the topic of serious harms on the basis of religion. The position paper acknowledges the fundamental role of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and the Islamophobia Register Australia to monitor incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia. However, the report concludes by calling for better data collection to inform law and policy in Australia. in charting a way forward, the position paper calls for an independent body to collect and analyse data in accordance with conventional scientific standards. You can find more information about this topic in our training module on data gaps in Australia.