Race Discrimination
I'm deeply grateful to the organisers for this invitation to open "Courage to Care" because it gives me an opportunity to make public my admiration for the exhibition and its aims and an opportunity to reflect on the state of tolerance for ethnic and religious diversity in Australia, and indeed internationally, as we come to the end of the first year of this new millennium.
Sex Discrimination
Before I commence, let me acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation on whose land we stand today. I pay my respects to their elders past and present.
Sex Discrimination
I want to begin by acknowledging that we are gathered today on the traditional land of the Wurundjeri people and I want to pay my respect to their elders past and present.
Rights and Freedoms
Despite its rather grand title, this presentation will be a relatively modest attempt to set out the key challenges for human rights in Australia as I see them at the outset of my term as Human Rights Commissioner. Let us begin with a quick survey of the state of human rights internationally and in Australia today.
Sex Discrimination
These days the business case for diversity, that is for employing women as well as men across the business and in particular at the decision-making level, is well known to all of us.
Commission – General
I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Gadigal peoples of the Eora nation and pay my respects to their elders, both past and present.
Sex Discrimination
Work and family: The legal perspective Speech delivered by Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner at the Deacon’s lawyers seminar on women and workplace issues, 9 July 2003 Chairman of Deacon’s Melbourne office, Peter Beaumont, National Workplace Relations Team Leader, Neil Napper...
Sex Discrimination
- include women in decision making (section 58), - include programmes specifically tailored to combat the confluence of race/gender (section 22) - include gender in the mechanisms that measure racism such as statistical collection (section 106), - and ensure that they mainstream a gendered perspective in the design of measures used to test how far we've come (section 68).
Commission – General
I would like to acknowledge that we are meeting on the traditional country of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation and pay my respects to their elders past and present.
Rights and Freedoms
Thank you for the opportunity to speak with all of you, and sleep with some of you. As you will have noticed, Vinnies was good enough to let my eleven-year-old daughter Rachel join me as my guide tonight, and she'll be the only one getting any of my cuddles. The rest of you have to make your own arrangements.
Rights and Freedoms
Mr. Neil Brown QC, Mr. Michael Shand QC, members of the Victoria Bar and of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, all.
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