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Lying in State: the state of Australian tolerance in 2001: Dr William Jonas AM (2001)

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.

Category, Speech
Rights and Freedoms

Human Rights in Contemporary Australia: Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM (2001)

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.

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

Deacon’s lawyers seminar on women and workplace issues

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...

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM

- 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).

Category, Speech
Commission – General

In defence of human rights

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.

Category, Speech
Rights and Freedoms

Keynote Address CEO Sleepout

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.

Category, Speech

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