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14 December 2012WebpageFederal Discrimination Law 2005: Chapter 3: The Racial Discrimination Act
Chapter 3: The Racial Discrimination Act 3.1 Introduction to the RDA 3.1.1 Background and Scope 3.1.2 Other Unlawful Acts and Offences 3.1.3 Interaction between RDA, State and other Commonwealth Laws 3.2 Racial Discrimination Defined 3.2.1 Grounds of Discrimination 3.2.2 Direct Discrimination under the RDA 3.2.3 Indirect Discrimination under the RDA 3.2.4 Interference with the Recognition -
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14 December 2012Webpage
Federal Discrimination Law 2005: Chapter 4: The Sex Discrimination Act
Chapter 4: The Sex Discrimination Act 4.1 Introduction to the SDA 4.1.1 Scope of the SDA 4.1.2 Limited Application Provisions and Constitutionality 4.2 Direct Discrimination under the SDA 4.2.1 Causation, Intention and Motive 4.2.2 Direct Sex Discrimination 4.2.3 Direct Marital Status Discrimination 4.2.4 Direct Pregnancy Discrimination 4.2.5 Discrimination on the Ground of Family… -
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14 December 2012Webpage
Workplace Relations Amendment (WorkChoices) Bill 2005
Mr John Carter, Secretary Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee Department of the Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 By email: eet.sen@aph.gov.au Dear Mr Carter, Re: Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment (WorkChoices) Bill 2005 Please find attached a Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Legislation Committee's Inquiry… -
14 December 2012Book page
HREOC Social Justice Report 2002: Indigenous women and corrections - A Landscape of Risk
Social Justice Report 2002\ back to contents Chapter 5: Indigenous women and corrections - A Landscape of Risk A statistical overview of Indigenous women in corrections a) Rates of incarceration of Indigenous women b) Recidivism rates among Indigenous women c) Types of crime committed by Indigenous women d) Over-policing e) Sentencing patterns for Indigenous women f) Characteristics of… -
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14 December 2012Webpage
CERD Index
Information concerning Australia and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Submission by the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Click on the links below to also access: Information Note Australian NGO submission for the 13 th and 14 th session of the Committee Concluding observations of the Committee on AUSTRALIA… -
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14 December 2012Webpage
Inquiry into the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 and Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (2009)
Inquiry into the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 and Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency Australian Human Rights Commission Submission to the Australian Government Office for Women 30 October 2009 Download Word [ 1.6 MB] Download PDF [ 630 KB ] Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Executive Summary 3 Table of Recommendations 4 Diagrams of proposed national… -
14 December 2012Book page
Social Justice Report 2007 - Chapter 3: The Northern Territory 'Emergency Response' intervention
Back to Contents Social Justice Report 2007 Chapter 3: The Northern Territory ‘Emergency Response’ intervention – A human rights analysis Part 1: Background - The Little Children are Sacred Report and the announcement of the 'emergency measures' Part 2: The Northern Territory 'emergency response' legislation Part 3: The measures enacted in the NT emergency response and human rights standards… -
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14 December 2012Webpage
Federal Discrimination Law 2005: Chapter 6: Procedure and Evidence
Chapter 6: Procedure and Evidence 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Who is Entitled to make a Complaint to HREOC? 6.2.1 'A Person Aggrieved' 6.2.2 Bodies Corporate 6.2.3 Unincorporated Bodies 6.3 Election of Jurisdiction 6.4 HREOC Act is an Exclusive Regime 6.5 Scope of Applications made under s 46PO of the HREOC Act to the FMC and Federal Court 6.5.1 Parties 6.5.2 Relationship between Application and -
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14 December 2012Webpage
Federal Discrimination Law: Chapter 5 The Disability Discrimination Act
Chapter 5 The Disability Discrimination Act Back to index Download Chapter 5 in PDF [389 KB] Download Chapter 5 in Word [697 KB] 5.1 Introduction to the DDA 5.1.1 Scope of the DDA 5.1.2 Limited application provisions and constitutionality 5.1.3 Retrospectivity of the DDA 5.1.4 Jurisdiction over decisions made overseas 5.2 Disability Discrimination Defined 5.2.1 ‘Disability’ defined (a)… -
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10 October 2017Submission
Information concerning Australia’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (2017)
Information concerning Australia’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 18 September 2017 Australian Human Rights Commission Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Priority areas 3 General information 3.1 Scrutiny of human rights and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (ICCPR article 2; LOI 2 & 4) 3…