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Age Discrimination

New report finds Australian media must improve how it reports on older people

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Age Discrimination Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM has urged Australian newsrooms to review their editorial practices, work closely with experts in the age sector, and strengthen staff training to specifically cover age and ageism, after a new report found the media industry is failing to accurately represent older Australians and the issues they are facing.

Shaping Perceptions: How Australian Media Reports on Ageing (2024)

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This report released 1 October 2024 by the Australian Human Rights Commission followed interviews with journalists and media professionals, and a review of the literature and recent media reports on age-related topics by Australian media outlets. It found that the media industry is failing to accurately represent older Australians and the issues they are facing.

New report recommends Australia urgently creates nationally consistent enduring powers of attorney laws

Content type: Media Release
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Age Discrimination Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM has said Commonwealth and State and Territory governments must act now to achieve national consistency in laws governing enduring power of attorney, following the release of a new report.

Empowering futures: a report on enduring powers of attorney (2024)

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A national survey on the understanding and use of financial enduring powers of attorney (2024).

Ending gender-based violence: do not overlook older women and women with disability

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Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin states that Australia needs to take threats of gendered violence as seriously as it takes terrorist threats.

Inquiry into the Financial Services Regulatory Framework in Relation to Financial Abuse (2024)

Summary

Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services
Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services

Commissioner urges stronger government commitment to Disability Royal Commission findings

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Disability Discrimination Commissioner Rosemary Kayess has urged the Federal Government to make a stronger commitment to the Disability Royal Commission’s recommendations, if the vision for a more inclusive Australia is to ever be achieved.

Keynote Address to the Law Council of Australia

Mr Robert Fitzgerald AM,
Age Discrimination Commissioner


Friday, 31 May 2024

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Introduction 

I would like to thank the Law Council of Australia for this invitation to speak at your National Elder Law and Succession Law Committee meeting, and to your committee chair, Darryl Browne, for introducing me.

I wish to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the traditional owners of the lands from which we meet and pay respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging.