Graeme Gordon Innes AM (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.

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.

[citation needed] Innes worked for Qantas (1993–1995), initially managing its Disability Services Project, and then fulfilling the role of the company's Equal Employment Opportunity Officer.

In this role, he heard the cases of Finney v Hills Grammar School,[8] and Purvis v NSW Department of Education,[9] which resulted in the landmark decisions that the schools in question had discriminated against a child on the basis of their disability (either refusing enrolment, or excluding the child) in breach of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.

He also played an instrumental role in the Same Sex: Same Entitlements[20] enquiry, which resulted in the removal of discrimination across Australian federal law.

[17] In his role as Human Rights Commissioner, he undertook three annual inspections of Australia's Immigration Detention facilities.

[citation needed] 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[22] (which delivers train services in NSW).

[citation needed] 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.

[citation needed] Innes has been an active advocate for the implementation of cinema captioning and audio descriptions in Australia.

[27] Innes was made a Member of the Order of Australia 1995[31] for service to the community, particularly as an adviser on disability anti-discrimination policy.