The Australian Human Rights Commission president Hugh de Kretser will deliver the first annual assessment of human rights in Canberra on Wednesday.
The assessment brings to light Australia's performance across a range of fields, including democratic standards.
There's no escaping the threat to social cohesion that racism presents, Mr de Kretser told AAP.
"There's been a rise in racism across Australia following the failed Voice referendum, and following the 7 October attacks and the war in Gaza," he said.
"We've seen affected communities in Australia experience greater racism culminating in the Bondi attacks against the Jewish community, but also Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism, anti-Arab racism and more."
Many of these experiences are documented the AHRC's "Seen and Heard" report, published earlier this month, documenting the "sharp rise" in "terrifying" racism from October 2023.
The report details shocking everyday experiences of Australians being abused, including a Jewish community member being called a "baby-killer", and Islamic Australians questioning whether they can call their country their home.
Mr de Kretser is likely to use the stage to once again call for the federal government to adopt the AHRC's national anti-racism framework.
That framework - which was funded by Anthony Albanese's government and backed by the special envoys against anti-Semitism and Islamophobia - is yet to be implemented.
Beyond the anti-Semitism and racism challenge, Mr de Kretser sees a "range of areas of where there has been regress on human rights where we urgently need to do better".
He names protest rights, the treatment of people in aged care and disabled people in institutional care, as areas where there have been "backsliding".
However, the national scorecard initiative is not wholly negative, with advances in protection to be acknowledged.
New federal laws on hate speech, improved whistleblower protections and the scrapping of some secrecy laws would fall in that category.
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