Sex Discrimination
Tom’s joke. My term as SDC was due to finish next month. But when I reflected on whether I would extend I asked myself the question – what other job takes you from 200 metres under the sea in a submarine, to the UN in NY, to beyond the wire in a forward operating base in Oruzgan Province in Afghanistan, to the White House, the World Bank and the Pentagon ALL in the same month?
Sex Discrimination
I want to begin by acknowledging that we are gathered here on the traditional lands of the Ngunnawal people and pay my respects to their elders past and present.
Sex Discrimination
Read a speech by Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination, to the banking sector.
Sex Discrimination
1. ABS Cat. No. 6302.2 at May 2001. 2. ABS Labour Force Surveys July 1979 to June 2000 - quoted in ABS Australian Social Trends 2001 Cat no 4102.0. 3. Smith and Ewer ABS 6310. 4. ABS Cat No. 4402.0 Childcare June 2000 5. Ibid. 6. ABS Labour Force Surveys July 1979 to June 2000 - quoted in ABS Australian Social Trends 2001 Cat no 4102.0. 7. ABS Cat. No. 6302.2 at May 2001. 8. ABS Statistics, 'Australia Now: A Statistical Profile'. 9. ABS Cat. No. 6203.0 August 2001. 10. ABS 6303.0, May 1996 11. ABS 6302.0 May 2001. 12.
Commission – General
Ladies and Gentlemen I am very pleased to be at the Catholic Independent Schools Employment Relations Committee Conference. Occasions such as this one allow me, as President of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, to share with a very influential group my thoughts about how we can all better manage the complexity and diversity of today’s working environments.
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