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Contents About this document Executive Summary About the Guidelines The need for Guidelines Who should read these guidelines? Chapter 1: Legal and human rights obligations Chapter 2: How to provide equal access to digital goods and services Chapter 3: Standards and Guidelines on digital accessibility Further reading About this document This is an update of the Australian Human Rights…

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On 12 December 2022, the Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Act 2022 (Cth) (the Act) came into effect. The Act makes important amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) (the SDA) and the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth) (the AHRCA). These changes were recommended by the Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission)…

1.1 It is submitted that the law in Australia is both uncertain and unsatisfactory as to the issue of whether a child's view should ordinarily be taken into account by a court when that court is considering whether to authorise medical treatment on the child.

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(1) Support a two-stage inquiry process for the SDA, with some amendments made now to the existing law (Recommendations), and the rest completed within three (3) years (Options for Reform)

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2. The exercise of the jurisdiction of the Family Court is directly linked to the child's capacity to consent and therefore the capacity to consent must be the first issue to be decided.

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) thanks the Human Rights Consultation Committee (the Committee) for the opportunity to make this submission.

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